Lunda or Lounda is an ancient city in
Phrygia,
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 ...
(modern Turkey). Under the Roman Empire, it was in the
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of
Phrygia Prima (Pacatiana), in the civil
Diocese of Pontus
The Diocese of Pontus ( la, Dioecesis Pontica, el, Διοίκησις Πόντου/Ποντικῆς) was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, incorporating the provinces of northern and northeastern Asia Minor up to the border with the Sassanid ...
. The Anatolian site is now known as Isabey.
Ecclesiastical history
Lunda was a
suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of
Laodicea (on the Lycus), under the
Patriarchate of Constantinople
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( el, Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, translit=Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; la, Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constanti ...
.
Two incumbents are known:
* Niceforus attended the
Second Council of Nicaea
The Second Council of Nicaea is recognized as the last of the first seven ecumenical councils by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. In addition, it is also recognized as such by the Old Catholics, the Anglican Communion, an ...
in 787
* Eustachius participated in the
Council of Constantinople in 879-880.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1926 as the Roman Catholic
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 ...
of Lunda.
See also
*
Lunda (disambiguation)
*
Mission sui iuris of Lunda (Mlundi) in Angola
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic - data for all sections
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses
Populated places in Phrygia
History of Denizli Province
Çal District
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