Attanus was a Roman city and bishopric in
Asia Minor
Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...
and remains a Latin Catholic
titular see
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.
History
The Ancient city of Attananus, near modern
Aydan, was important enough in the
Roman province
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of
Phrygia Prima
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to become a
suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
of the Metropolitan Archbishop of its capital
Laodicea on the Lycus
Laodicea on the Lycus ( el, Λαοδίκεια πρὸς τοῦ Λύκου ''Laodikia pros tou Lykou''; la, Laodicea ad Lycum, also transliterated as ''Laodiceia'' or ''Laodikeia'') (modern tr, Laodikeia) was an ancient city in Asia Minor, ...
, but faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a
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 ...
, no later than 1952, under the names Attanasus (Latin; adjective Attanasen(sis)) / Attanaso (Curiate Italian).
It is vacant since decades, having had only two incumbents, both of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
* Lawrence Pullen Hardman,
Montfort Missionaries (S.M.M.) (born England) (1952.05.15 – 1959.04.25), later last
Apostolic Vicar
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*The Twelve Apostles of Jesus, or something related to them, such as the Church of the Holy Apostles
*Apostolic succession, the doctrine connecting the Christian Churc ...
of
Zomba (
Malawi
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) (1952.05.15 – 1959.04.25), promoted first Bishop of Zomba (1959.04.25 – retired 1970.09.21), emeritate as Titular Bishop of
Cenculiana
Cenculiana was a Roman era town in Roman North Africa.
Cenculiana, in today's Tunisia, is also the seat of an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Byzacena. The Bishop was a suffran of Carthage.Joseph Bingham, ''Origines Ecclesiasticae: ...
(1970.09.21 – resigned 1971.04.06), died 1996
*
Joseph Albert Malula (1959.07.18 – 1964.07.07), as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Léopoldville
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(now Kinshasa,
Congo-Kinshasa
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) (1959.07.18 – 1964.07.07), succeeded as last Metropolitan Archbishop of Léopoldville (1964.07.07 – 1966.05.30), restyled first Metropolitan Archbishop of Kinshasa (1966.05.30 – 1989.06.14), created
Cardinal-priest
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of
Santi Protomartiri a Via Aurelia Antica
Santi Protomartiri a Via Aurelia Antica is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in western Rome, dedicated to the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome (died AD 64–67).
History
Built in 1968, it was made a titular church to be ...
(1969.04.30 – 1989.06.14), President of
Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar
The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar or SECAM ( French: Symposium des Conférences Épiscopales d'Afrique et de Madagascar) is an agency of the Catholic Church which includes the bishops of Africa and Madagascar.
Histo ...
(1984 – 1987).
References
Sources and external links
GigaCatholic with titular incumbent biography links - data for all sections
Catholic titular sees in Asia
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