Limnae (in Pisidia) was a city and bishopric in the

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of Pisidia (Asia Minor), which is now a Latin Catholic

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Names

The city was called Λίμναι (genitive Λιμνῶν, as in πόλις Λιμνῶν, city of Limnae), as well as Λιμέναι (Limenae) and Λυμναία (Lymnaea). The Greek word Λίμναι means

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s or

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es. The town was also called Limnopolis (Λιμνῶν πόλις). The town, in the north of Pisidia, is only mentioned by ecclesiastical writers.

Location

It is also spelled Limnæ and has been identified with early-modern Gaziri''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 917 (also spelled Ghaziri), where there is a wall-surrounded island in Lake Hoyran called Limenia, housing ruins that include those of a temple of

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. In the present day, it is located at the shore of Aşağıtırtar.

Titular see

The Pisidian city Limnae was an

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, now listed in the ''

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'' as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric,

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, since the diocese was nominally restored in 1933 (Limne in Curiate Italian; Latin adjective Limnen(sis)). It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1027.htm GCatholic * Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta (1936.07.25 – 1941.06.14) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(

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) (1936.07.25 – 1941.06.14); later Titular Archbishop of

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(1941.06.14 – 1949.02.25) as

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of Asunción (1941.06.14 – 1949.02.25), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Asunción (1949.02.25 – retired 1970.06.16), also President of Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (1958 – 1970), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Musti (1970.06.16 – resigned 1970.11.25), died 1977 * André Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1941.11.08 – death 1955.06.20) on emeritate, formerly Bishop of Valença (

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) (1925.05.01 – 1936.08.08), Bishop of

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(Brazil) (1936.08.08 – 1941.11.08) * Francis Anthony Marrocco (1955.12.01 – 1968.06.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Ontario,

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) (1955.12.01 – 1968.06.10); later Bishop of

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(Canada) (1968.06.10 – death 1975.07.18).

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