Lunda or Lounda is an ancient city in

Phrygia In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. Stories of the heroic age of Greek mythology tell of several legendary Ph ...

Asia Minor Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...

(modern Turkey). Under the Roman Empire, it was in the

province A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

of Phrygia Prima (Pacatiana), in the civil

Diocese of Pontus The Diocese of Pontus (, ) was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, incorporating the provinces of northern and northeastern Asia Minor up to the border with the Sassanid Empire in Armenia. The diocese was established after the reforms of Diocle ...

. The Anatolian site is now known as Isabey.

Ecclesiastical history

Lunda was a

suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. 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 ...

bishopric of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Laodicea (on the Lycus), under the

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. Two incumbents are known: * Niceforus attended the

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in 787 * Eustachius participated in the Council of Constantinople in 879-880. The diocese was nominally restored in 1926 as the Roman Catholic

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 ...

of Lunda.

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Catholic titular sees in Asia Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses Populated places in Phrygia History of Denizli Province Çal District {{Denizli-geo-stub

Ecclesiastical history

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