Silandus (titular see)

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Silandus is a Catholic titular see. Its origin was a city in Lydia, suffragan of the archdiocese of Sardis, the present town of Selendi, Turkey.

The see of Silandus is mentioned in the Greek Notitiae episcopatuum until the thirteenth century; the city is not mentioned by any ancient geographer or historian. We possess some of its coins representing the Hermus. Some inscriptions but no ruins are now found there.

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[edit] Bishops

The list of bishops of Silandus given by Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 881, needs correction:

  • Markus, present at the Council of Nicaea, 325[1]
  • Alcimedes at Chalcedon, 451[2];
  • Andreas, at the Council of Constantinople 680; Stephanus, at Constantinople, 787;
  • Eustathius, at Constantinople, 879[3].

The bishop mentioned as having taken part in the Council of Constantinople, 1351, belongs to the See of Synaus[4].

[edit] References

  • Ramsay, Asia Minor (London, 1890), 122;
  • Texier, Asie mineure (Paris, 1862), 276.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Less probably bishop of Blaundus, as suggested by Ramsay, Asia Minor, 134.
  2. ^ Anatolius, who signed the letter of the bishops of the province to Emperor Leo, 458, belongs rather to Sala, Ramsay, ibid., 122.
  3. ^ Perhaps Bishop of Blaundus.
  4. ^ Wächter, Der Verfall des Griechentums in Kleinasien im XIV Jahrhundert, Leipzig, 1903, 63, n. 1.

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.