Comba (Lycia)
Comba or Komba (
ancient Lycia.[1]
Comba lay inland, near Mount Cragus, and the cities Octapolis and Symbra.[1][2]
Its site is located near Gömbe in Asiatic Turkey.[3][4]
Comba appears as a bishopric, a
A Notitia Episcopatuum 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.[8]
No longer a residential bishopric, Comba is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[9]
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
- ^ a b Albert Forbiger (1844), Handbuch Der Alten Geographie, Volume 2, p. 261, retrieved January 6, 2015
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.3.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, book XII, coll. 616, 629, 652 and 677.
- ^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, book XII, coll. 998, 1106, and XIII, coll. 148 and 393.
- ^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, books XVII-XVIII, col. 377.
- ^ Gustav Parthey (1866), Hieroclis Synecdemus et notitiae graecae episcopatuum, p. 112, No. 270
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 873
36°33′05″N 29°40′10″E / 36.551265°N 29.669357°E
External links
- Catholic Hierarchy
- www.gcatholic.org
- Ptolemy at University of Chicago
- 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, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Paris 1956, col. 355
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