Sala or Salena was a town of
ancient Lydia
Lydia ( Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish prov ...
, and is a suppressed, vacant and
titular see
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
History
The town of Sala is identifiable with
Kepecik in today's west Turkey, but in
antiquity was an ancient
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 ...
of the
Roman province
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of
Lydia
Lydia (Lydian language, Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the mod ...
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 ...
. It was part of the
Patriarchate of Constantinople
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( el, Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, translit=Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; la, Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constanti ...
during
Byzantine
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times and was
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
Archdiocese of Sardis.
Sala is not mentioned by
Michel Le Quien
Michel Le Quien (8 October 1661, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 12 March 1733, Paris) was a French historian and theologian. He studied at Plessis College, Paris, and at twenty entered the Dominican convent in Faubourg Saint-Germain, where he made his pr ...
in his work ''Oriens Christianus'' but a
bishop
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Stephen is recorded in the episcopal lists of the second
Second Council of Nicaea
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.
William Mitchell Ramsay
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in his ''The Historical Geography of Asia Minor'' (1890) claims that Le Quien's omission of Sala was due to his misreading the Greek records where he "invented" the bishopric of
Helenopolis.
Sala survives today as a titular bishop; the seat has been vacant since 27 January 1962.
Known bishops
Ancient bishops
*Noumenius
*Anatolius
fl458
[W. M. Ramsay, ''The Historical Geography of Asia Minor'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010) p122.]
*Stephen fl787
Titular Catholic bishops
*Floyd Begin Lawrence (03.22.1947 – 01.27.1962)
*Edward Quentin Jennings (03/22/1941 – 22/02/1946)
*
Philippe-Servulo Desranleau
Philippe-Servulo Desranleau (April 3, 1882 – May 28, 1952) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and the Archbishop of Sherbrooke from 1951 to 1952.
Born in Saint-Sébastien-d'Iberville, Quebec, Desranleau studied at the Séminaire de Sai ...
(later Archbishop) (12/13/1937 – 02/12/1941)
*
Augustine Francis Schinner
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(17/12/1925 – 02/07/1937)
References
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Dioceses established in the 1st century
Populated places in ancient Lydia
Roman sites in Turkey
Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
Lost ancient cities and towns
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