Linoë was a city and
episcopal see
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Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, mak ...
in the
Roman province of
Bithynia Secunda and is now a
titular see.
[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 918]
History
It is known only from the which mention it as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as 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
archbishopric of Nicaea. The Byzantine Emperor
Justinian must have raised it to the rank of a city.
It is probably the modern Turkish town of
Bilecik
Bilecik is the provincial capital of Turkey's Bilecik Province which is located in northwestern Anatolia. As of 2015 urban population of the city is 64,531. The mayor is Semih Şahin ( CHP).
The town is famous for its numerous restored Turki ...
, a station on the
Hnidar-Pasha railway to
Konya. It became an important centre for the cultivation of the
silk-worm
The domestic silk moth (''Bombyx mori''), is an insect from the moth family Bombycidae. It is the closest relative of ''Bombyx mandarina'', the wild silk moth. The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of a silk moth. It is an economically imp ...
.
Lequien (, I, 657) mentions four bishops of Linoe:
*Anastasius, who attended a
Council of Constantinople in 692
*Leo, at the
Second Council of Nicea in 787
*Basil and Cyril, the one a partisan of
Ignatios of Constantinople, the other of
Photius
Photios I ( el, Φώτιος, ''Phōtios''; c. 810/820 – 6 February 893), also spelled PhotiusFr. Justin Taylor, essay "Canon Law in the Age of the Fathers" (published in Jordan Hite, T.O.R., & Daniel J. Ward, O.S.B., "Readings, Cases, Materia ...
, at the
Fourth Council of Constantinople in 879.
References
Sources
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Catholic titular sees in Asia