Şarkikaraağaç is a town in
Isparta Province
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in the
Mediterranean Region of
Anatolia
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(Asian
Turkey
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). It is the seat of
Şarkikaraağaç District
Şarkikaraağaç District is a Districts of Turkey, district of the Isparta Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Şarkikaraağaç. .
[İlçe Belediyesi]
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 10,128 (2022).
It is the site of Ancient city and bishopric Hadrianopolis in Pisidia, which remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
''Şarki'' means "eastern", ''karaağaç'' means "elm".
History
:''See
Hadrianopolis for Ancient namesakes''
Hadrianopolis (in Pisidia) was important enough in the late
Roman province
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of
Pisidia
Pisidia (; , ; ) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Pamphylia, northeast of Lycia, west of Isauria and Cilicia, and south of Phrygia, corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of Antalya in Turkey. Among Pisidia's set ...
to become one of the
suffragan
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In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...
bishoprics of the Metropolitan of the capital Antioch, but was to fade.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin
titular bishopric
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Leo Aloysius Pursley (1950.07.22 – 1956.12.29) as
Auxiliary Bishop
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...
of
Fort Wayne
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(
Indiana
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, USA) (1950.07.22 – 1956.12.29), until succeeding as last Bishop of Fort Wayne (1956.12.29 – 1960.05.28), later restyled as first Bishop of
Fort Wayne–South Bend (USA) (1960.05.28 – retired 1976.08.24), died 1998
* Bernardino N. Mazzarella,
Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (1957.07.20 – 1963.03.13) as
Bishop-Prelate
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of the
Territorial Prelature of Inmaculada Concepción de la B.V.M. en Olancho (
Honduras
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) (1954 – 1963.03.13); later Bishop of
Comayagua
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The accelerated growth experienced by the city of Comayagua led the municipal authoriti ...
(Honduras) (1963.03.13 – death 1979.05.30)
* Filemón Castellano (1963.04.10 – 1970.12.20), on emeritate, formerly Bishop of
Lomas de Zamora
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(
Argentina
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) (1957.03.13 – 1963.04.10); died 1980.
References
Sources and external links
District governor's official website
; Bibliography - ecclesiastical history
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 451
* Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris 1740, vol. I, coll. 1049-1050
* Sylvain Destephen, Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire 3. Prosopographie du diocèse d'Asie'' (325-641), Paris 2008
Populated places in Şarkikaraağaç District
Pisidia
District municipalities in Turkey
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