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Rosalia (in Pisidia) was an ancient city in
Pisidia
Pisidia (; , ; ) was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Pamphylia, northeast of Lycia, west of Isauria and Cilicia, and south of Phrygia, corresponding roughly to the modern-day province of Antalya in Turkey. Among Pisidia's set ...
, Asia Minor, in modern Turkey. Its location is unknown.
Ecclesiastical history
None of its bishops are known, nor which archbishopric it was attached to.
By 1687, the diocese was nominally restored 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 Rosalia; it was suppressed by decree of
Propaganda Fide
The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (CEP; ) was a congregation of the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church in Rome, responsible for missionary work and related activities. It is also known by its former title, the Sacred Congregati ...
in 1894.
[''Annuaire Pontifical Catholique'' 1900, pp. 348-349]
See also
*
List of Catholic titular sees
This is the official list of titular sees of the Catholic Church included in the ''Annuario Pontificio''. Archiepiscopal sees are shown in bold.
The Italian-language ''Annuario Pontificio'' devotes some 200 pages to listing these sees, with up to ...
References
Sources
GCatholic; Bibliography
* Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 5, p. 335; vol. 6, p. 358
* Gaetano Moroni, ''Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica'', vol. 59, p. 150
Catholic titular sees in Asia
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