Limnae in Pisidia


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

Names

The city was called Λίμναι, as well as Λιμέναι and Λυμναία. The Greek word Λίμναι means lakes or marshes. The town was also called Limnopolis. The town, in the north of Pisidia, is only mentioned by ecclesiastical writers.

Location

It is also spelled Limnæ and has been identified with modern Gaziri, where there is a wall-surrounded island in Lake Hoyran called Limenia, housing ruins that include those of a temple of Artemis.

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.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :