Dalisandus or Dalisandos ( grc, Δαλισανδός) was an ancient city and bishopric in eastern
Pamphylia
Pamphylia (; grc, Παμφυλία, ''Pamphylía'') was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus (all in modern-day Antalya province, Turkey). It was bounded on the north b ...
, in
Asia Minor
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(Anatolia, Asian Turkey) and remains a Latin
titular see
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.
It was situated near Lake Seydişehri in Turkey.
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History
This Dalisandus is not mentioned in the '' Synecdemus'', which does mention another Dalisandus in Isauria. However, it is included in the ''Notitiae Episcopatuum The ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' (singular: ''Notitia Episcopatuum'') are official documents that furnish Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church.
In the Roman Church (the -mostly Lat ...
'' of the Patriarchate of Constantinople
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as a suffragan see
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of Side
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, the capital of the late Roman province
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of Pamphylia Prima.
Titular see
No longer a residential bishopric, Dalisandus in Pamphylia is today listed by the Catholic Church
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as a Latin titular bishopric
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[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 879] since the diocese was nominally restored in 1933.
It is vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:Apostolic Vicar
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of Conakry ( Guinea) (1955.05.08 – 1955.09.14), promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of above Conakry (1955.09.14 – 1962.03.10), also Apostolic Administrator
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of Apostolic Prefecture of Kankan (Guinea) (1957 – 1958.12.14); later Titular Archbishop
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of Gabala (1962.03.10 – 2007.01.12) as Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza (Brazil
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) (1967 – 1984) and Apostolic Administrator
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of Basse-Terre
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( Guadeloupe, French Antilles) (1968.01.29 – 1970.10.05), died 2007
* Rudolf Johannes Maria Koppmann, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
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(O.M.I.) (1957.01.26 – 2007.06.24) as Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Windhoek
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(Namibia
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) (1957.01.26 – 1961.03.20) and having succeeded as Apostolic Vicar of above Windhoek (1961.03.20 – retired 1980.11.29), died 2007.
See also
* Dalisandus in Isauria
References
Sources and references
GCatholic
* Raymond Janin, lemma '2. Dalisandos', in ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'', vol. XIV, 1960, coll. 26-27
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Populated places in ancient Pamphylia
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