Comba or Komba ( grc, τὰ Κὀμβα) was a city in

ancient Lycia Lycia ( Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 ''Trm̃mis''; el, Λυκία, ; tr, Likya) was a state or nationality that flourished in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean Sea in what is ...

. Comba lay inland, near

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, and the cities

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and Symbra. Its site is located near Gömbe in Asiatic Turkey. Comba appears as a bishopric, a suffragan of the

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of Myra at a relatively late stage: it is not mentioned in the ''

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'' of Pseudo-Epiphanius, composed during the reign of

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Heraclius (''c.'' 640), and its bishops appear only in the second half of the 7th century. The first is John, who participated in the

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of 692. Bishop Constantine was at the

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in 787, while another Constantine was one of the fathers of the

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that rehabilitated the

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Photios I of Constantinople. A ''

'' of the 12th century still reports the presence of this diocese, even if it is not certain that at that time it still existed; the diocese certainly disappeared with the Turkish conquest of the next century. No longer a residential bishopric, Comba is today listed by the

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as a

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.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 873

Bishops

* John (mentioned in 692) * Constantine (mentioned in 787) * Constantine (II) (mentioned in 879)

Titular bishops

* Tarcisius Henricus Josephus van Valenberg, OFM Cap. (December 10, 1934 - December 18, 1984)

References

External links

Catholic Hierarchy

*Pius Bonifacius Gams
''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''
Leipzig 1931, p. 450 *Michel Lequien
''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus''
Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 991-992 *Raymond Janin, v. ''Comba'', i
''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''
vol. XIII, Paris 1956, col. 355 Populated places in ancient Lycia Catholic titular sees in Asia Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey Former populated places in Turkey Kaş District {{Antalya-geo-stub