Limnae in Pisidia

{{Short description|Former city and bishopric, presently Gaziri in Anatolia and a Latin catholic titular see}}

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Limnae (in Pisidia) was a city and bishopric in the Roman province of Pisidia (Asia Minor), which is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Names

The city was called Λίμναι (genitive Λιμνῶν, as in πόλις Λιμνῶν, city of Limnae), as well as Λιμέναι (Limenae) and Λυμναία (Lymnaea).[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aentry%3Dlimenae-geo William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), entry "Limenae"] The Greek word Λίμναι means lakes or marshes.Cf. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BC%CE%BD%CE%B7 Wiktionary] The town was also called Limnopolis (Λιμνῶν πόλις). The town, in the north of Pisidia, is only mentioned by ecclesiastical writers.{{cite DGRG|title=Limenae}}

Location

It is also spelled Limnæ and has been identified with early-modern GaziriAnnuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 917 (also spelled Ghaziri), where there is a wall-surrounded island in Lake Hoyran called Limenia, housing ruins that include those of a temple of Artemis.[http://www.travelinanatolia.com/page/5/ Travel in Anatolia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106040531/http://www.travelinanatolia.com/page/5/ |date=2014-01-06 }}[http://www.ispartakulturturizm.gov.tr/Eklenti/9165,ingisprehber4pdf.pdf?0 Hoyran (Limenia) Island] In the present day, it is located at the shore of Aşağıtırtar.

Titular see

The Pisidian city Limnae was an episcopal see, now listed in the Annuario Pontificio as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric, suffragan of Antioch of Pisidia, since the diocese was nominally restored in 1933 (Limne in Curiate Italian; Latin adjective Limnen(sis)).

It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1027.htm GCatholic

Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta (1936.07.25 – 1941.06.14) as Auxiliary Bishop of Asunción (Paraguay) (1936.07.25 – 1941.06.14); later Titular Archbishop of Cyrrhus (1941.06.14 – 1949.02.25) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Asunción (1941.06.14 – 1949.02.25), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Asunción (1949.02.25 – retired 1970.06.16), also President of Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (1958 – 1970), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Musti (1970.06.16 – resigned 1970.11.25), died 1977
André Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1941.11.08 – death 1955.06.20) on emeritate, formerly Bishop of Valença (Brazil) (1925.05.01 – 1936.08.08), Bishop of Taubaté (Brazil) (1936.08.08 – 1941.11.08)
Francis Anthony Marrocco (1955.12.01 – 1968.06.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) (1955.12.01 – 1968.06.10); later Bishop of Peterborough (Canada) (1968.06.10 – death 1975.07.18).