ancient Cilicia
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and later in the
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of
Isauria
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.
Name and location
Some refer to the town by the name Titopolis, but a coin minted there in the time of Emperor
Hadrian
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give the same form. These concern the names of bishops of Titiopolis (considered below) and also the information given by the '' Hieroclis Synecdemus'', by
George of Cyprus
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, and by
Constantine Porphyrogenitus
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, according to which Titiopolis was one of the cities of the
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conjecture that the old Isaurian bishopric (and, now, titular see) of Cardabunta or Kardabounda may be identified with the town.
The ruins of Titiopolis lie about 4 kilometres north-north-west of
Anamur
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.
Ecclesiastical History
Bishopric
Titiopolis was also the seat of an ancient
bishopric
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History
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.
Le Quien
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Le Quien studied at , Paris, and at twenty entered the Dominican convent in Faubourg Saint-Germain, where he made ...
mentions three bishops of Titiopolis:
*Artemius at the Council of Constantinople in 381;
*Mompraeus at the
Council of Chalcedon
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in 451;
*Domitius at the
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in 692.
The see of Titiopolis is mentioned in the 6th century ''
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'' of
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and, after Isauria was annexed to the
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in about 732, in the ''Notitia episcopatuum'' of that church and in that of Leo the Wise in about 900 and that of Constantine Porphyrogenitus in about 940.
The last mention of Titiopolis as a residential see is by
William of Tyre
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in the late 12th century. He speaks of it as one of the 24 suffragan sees of
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The see of Titiopolis is now included in the
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's list of
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s. It is currently vacant.
Titular bishops
* Jean de Karlestadt, O.S.A., appointed 1389
* Gomez de Rocha, O.S.B., appointed 11 July 1488
* Francisco, O.S.B., appointed 20 July 1498
* Fr. Gonçalo de Amorim, O.P., appointed 19 June 1518, appointed titular
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14 June 1518
* Jean Parisol, O.P., appointed 26 October 1519
* Gaspar de Vasos, appointed 7 November 1530
* Fr. Luís da Silva Teles, O.SS.T., appointed 1 July 1671; appointed Bishop of Lamego 8 March 1677
* Bl.
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* Marco Gradenigo, appointed 22 August 1699; appointed
Bishop of Verona
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19 November 1714
* Charles-Marin Labbé, M.E.P., appointed 12 September 1703; died 24 March 1723
* Angel Benito, O.S.B., appointed 4 March 1720
* Gabriel Zerdahely, appointed 11 December 1780; confirmed as Bishop of Banská Bystrica 22 December 1800
* Ferenc Miklósy, appointed 20 July 1801; confirmed as
Bishop of Oradea Mare
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(also known as Gran Varadino, Nagyvárad) 20 June 1803
* Vicente Alexandre de Tovar, appointed 20 June 1803; died 8 October 1808
* Manuel del Villar, appointed 4 September 1815; appointed Bishop of Lérida 23 September 1816
* Nicolò Gatto, appointed 21 February 1820; confirmed as
Bishop of Patti
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Bishop of Urgell
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Bishop of Nitra
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Edward Joseph Hanna
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Pedro Francisco Luna Pachón
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, O.F.M., appointed 17 Jul 1926; died 15 March 1967