Titiopolis or Titioupolis ( el, Τιτιούπολις) was a town of

ancient Cilicia Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern coa ...

and later in the

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Name and location

Some refer to the town by the name Titopolis, but a coin minted there in the time of Emperor

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bears on the reverse the word ΤΙΤΙΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ (Of the inhabitants of Titiopolis).''Numismatic Chronicle'', volume 1 (1839), pp. 213-217
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give the same form. These concern the names of bishops of Titiopolis (considered below) and also the information given by the '' Hieroclis Synecdemus'', by

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, and by

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, according to which Titiopolis was one of the cities of the

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.Simén Vailhé, "Titopolis" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1912)
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conjecture that the old Isaurian bishopric (and, now, titular see) of Cardabunta or Kardabounda may be identified with the town. The ruins of Titiopolis lie about 4 kilometres north-north-west of

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Ecclesiastical History

Bishopric

Titiopolis was also the seat of an ancient

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mentions three bishops of Titiopolis: *Artemius at the Council of Constantinople in 381; *Mompraeus at the

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in 451; *Domitius at the

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in 692. The see of Titiopolis is mentioned in the 6th century ''

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'' of

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and, after Isauria was annexed to the

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in about 732, in the ''Notitia episcopatuum'' of that church and in that of

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in about 900 and that of Constantine Porphyrogenitus in about 940. The last mention of Titiopolis as a residential see is by

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in the late 12th century. He speaks of it as one of the 24 suffragan sees of Seleucia in Isauria. The see of Titiopolis is now included in the

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's list of

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Titular Bishops

* •Jean de Karlestadt, O.S.A. † ( 1389 Appointed - ) * •Luís da Silva Teles, O.SS.T. † (1 Jul 1671 Appointed - 8 Mar 1677 Appointed, Bishop of Lamego) * •Bl.

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, S.J. † (21 Jan 1879 Appointed - 14 Aug 1898 Died) * •

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) * • Pierre Verdier † (22 Mar 1917 Appointed - 21 May 1924 Died) * •

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References

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