Şarkikaraağaç is a town and district of

Isparta Province Isparta Province ( tr, ) is a province in southwestern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Afyon to the northwest, Burdur to the southwest, Antalya to the south, and Konya to the east. It has an area of 8,993 km2 and a population of 448,298 ...

in the

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region of

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(Asian

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). It is the site of Ancient city and bishopric Hadrianopolis in Pisidia, which remains a Latin Catholic

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. ''Şarki'' means "eastern", ''karaağaç'' means "elm". The population is 9,849 as of 2010.

History

:''See Hadrianopolis for Ancient namesakes'' Hadrianopolis (in Pisidia) was important enough in the late

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to become one of the suffragan bishoprics of the Metropolitan of the capital Antioch, but was to fade.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin

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. It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * Leo Aloysius Pursley (1950.07.22 – 1956.12.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Wayne (

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, USA) (1950.07.22 – 1956.12.29), until succeeding as last Bishop of Fort Wayne (1956.12.29 – 1960.05.28), later restyled as first Bishop of Fort Wayne–South Bend (USA) (1960.05.28 – retired 1976.08.24), died 1998 * Bernardino N. Mazzarella,

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(O.F.M.) (1957.07.20 – 1963.03.13) as

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of the Territorial Prelature of Inmaculada Concepción de la B.V.M. en Olancho ( Honduras) (1954 – 1963.03.13); later Bishop of Comayagua (Honduras) (1963.03.13 – death 1979.05.30) * Filemón Castellano (1963.04.10 – 1970.12.20), on emeritate, formerly Bishop of

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(

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) (1957.03.13 – 1963.04.10); died 1980.

References

Sources and external links

District governor's official website

; Bibliography - ecclesiastical history * Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 451 * Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris 1740, vol. I, coll. 1049-1050 * Sylvain Destephen, Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire 3. Prosopographie du diocèse d'Asie'' (325-641), Paris 2008 Populated places in Isparta Province Şarkikaraağaç District Towns in Turkey {{Isparta-geo-stub