Sala (Diocese)
Asia minor 400AD
Sala or Salena is a suppressed, vacant and titular see of the Roman Catholic church.[1]
history
The town of Sala is identifiable with Kepecik in today's west Turkey , but in antiquity was an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Lydia in Asia Minor . It was part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople during Byzantine times and was suffragan of ' Archdiocese of Sardis
Sala is not mentioned by Michel Lequien in his work Oriens Christianus[2] but a bishop Stephen is recorded in the episcopal lists of the second Second Council of Nicaea.[3]
Sala survives today as titular bishop ; the seat has been vacant since 27 January 1962.[4][5]
known bishops
Ancient Bishops
Titular Catholic Bishops
- Floyd Begin Lawrence (03.22.1947 - 01.27.1962)
- Edward Quentin Jennings (03/22/1941 - 22/02/1946)
- Philippe-Servulo Desranleau (later Archbishop) (12/13/1937 - 02/12/1941)
- Augustine Francis Schinner (17/12/1925 - 02/07/1937)
References
- ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 p193.
- ↑ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur.
- ↑ Darrouzès Jean, Listes of Episcopal du nicee Stone Council (787) , in Revue des études byzantines, 33 (1975), p.35.
- ↑ https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=it&u=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2s11.html&usg=ALkJrhgiG3E8j81zyf1mWQ5cpdWocRxXXQ Sala] at Catholic heirachy.org.
- ↑ Sala at GCatholic.org.
- ↑ W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (Cambridge University Press, 2010) p122.
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