Silandus (titular see)

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.

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]

References

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

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.

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia article
• Catholic Hierarchy page

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