Nasala was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Mesopotamia and remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
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 archbi ...
.
Its present location in Asian
Turkey
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is unclear.
History
Nasala was important enough in the Late
Roman province
The Roman provinces (, pl. ) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as Roman g ...
of
Mesopotamia Secunda to become 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 ...
of its Metropolitan Archbishopric (
Dara(s), replaced in the 19th century by
Rhesaina
Rhesaina (Rhesaena) () or Resina (Ῥέσινα) was a city in the late Roman province of Mesopotamia Secunda and a bishopric that was a suffragan of Dara.
Rhesaina (Rhesaena, Resaena – numerous variations of the name appear in ancient authors ...
), but would fade.
Titular see
It was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin 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 ...
, but remains without incumbent.
Source and External link
GCatholic
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Mesopotamia (Roman province)
Populated places in ancient Upper Mesopotamia
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