Bindaios, also Binda, was a town of

ancient Pisidia Pisidia (; grc-gre, Πισιδία, ; tr, Pisidya) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Pamphylia, northeast of Lycia, west of Isauria and Cilicia, and south of Phrygia, corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of A ...

inhabited during

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and

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times. Under the name Binda, it became the seat of a bishop. Its site is located near Küçük Gökceli (formerly Findos, in Isparta District) in Asiatic Turkey.

Ecclesiastical history

The bishop of Binda was a suffragan bishop of Antiochia in Pisidia. The episcopal see is not mentioned in the ''

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'' of Pseudo-Epiphanius, which can be dated to 640, but appears in that attributed to

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Leo VI the Isaurian. Three bishops of the see are known through their participation in church councils. Theodorus was at the

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of 692. At the

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there were two bishops of Binda, Stephanus and Paulus, perhaps, as in other cases, one ordained by

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, the other by Photius. No longer a residential bishopric, Binda is today listed by the

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as a

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. No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a

of the

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. Past incumbents include

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(1942–1943), Ignácio Krause (1944–1946), Celestino Fernández y Fernández (1948–1952), Eugen Seiterich (1952–1954), Bernard Joseph Topel (1955–1955), Joseph Calasanz Fließer (1956–1960),

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(1960–1961), Gaetano Alibrandi (1961–2003). a
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References

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