Vasada
Vasada (
Asia Minor (modern Turkey). It was located a little to the southwest of Laodiceia.[1][2] In the acta of church councils attended by its bishop, the name appears variously as Usada or Ousada (Οὔσαδα) or Aasada (Ἀάσαδα).[3]
Its site is located near Bostandere, Konya Province, Asiatic Turkey.[4][5]
Residential see
Vasada, identified with the ruins on Mount
Patriarchate of Constantinople
.
These bishops were historically documented :
- Theodorus, attended the First Council of Nicaea in 325.
- Le Quiencounts a bishop Severus, contemporary of Saint Basilius
- Olympius, attended the Council of Chalcedon in 451
- Gorgonius partook in the Council of Constantinople of 536
- Conone participated in the Council in Trulloin 692
- At the Ignatius I.
Catholic titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1929 by the
titular bishopric
of Vasada.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents:
- Joseph James Byrne, (1959.05.15 – death 1961.10.20)
- Johann Wember, Apostolic Prefect of Northern Norway(1944.03.10 – 1955.02.18).
Notes
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.4.10.
- ^ Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 675.
- ^
Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Vasada". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
Sources and external links
- GCatholic
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Vasada". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 451
- OCLC 955922585.
- Raymond Janin, lemma 1. 'Basada', in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VI, 1932, col. 1063
37°30′07″N 31°54′42″E / 37.5020749°N 31.9117536°E
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