Derbe (titular see)

Derbe is a Roman Catholic titular see. It was in Lycaonia, Asia Minor. The site of Derbe was fixed by Michael Ballance from an inscription in 1956, at Kerti Hüyük, Turkey, some 22 km north of Karaman^[1].

History

This city was the fortress of a famous bandit leader, Antipater of Derbe, when it was captured by Amyntas of Galatia^[2]. In Roman times it struck its own coins.

It was successfully evangelized by St. Paul and St. Barnabas^[3], and again visited by St. Paul^[4]. Derbe became a suffragan see of Iconium; it is not mentioned by later Notitiæ Episcopatuum.

Just four bishops are known, from 381 to 672^[5].

References

• William Martin Leake, Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor (London, 1824), 101
• Hamilton, Researches in Asia Minor (London, 1842), II, 313
• J. R. S. Sterrett, The Wolfe Expedition in Asia Minor (Boston, 1888), 23
• W. M. Ramsay, Hist. Geogr. of Asia Minor (London, 1890), 336
• ____ The Church and the Roman Empire (London, 1894), 54-56

Notes

1. ^ [1], [2]; Geoffrey William Bromiley, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: A-D (1994), p. 924-5.
2. ^ Strabo, XII,i, 4; vi, 3; Dio Cassius, XLIX, xxxii.
3. ^ Acts 14:6, 14:20-21.
4. ^ Acts 16:1
5. ^ Lequien, Oriens Christianus, I, 1081.

See also

• Derbe

External links

• Source
• Catholic Hierarchy page

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.