Claneus
Claneus or Klaneos or Klaneous was an ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor. Its site is tentatively located near, Yunak, Turkey. Claneus was in the Roman province of either Phrygia Salutaris or Galatia Secunda.
Ecclesiastical history
Claneus became a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan of Pessinus, in Galatia Salutaris. When Amorium, its former fellow suffragan of Pessinus, became a Metropolitan see in the ninth century, Claneus became its suffragan.Two of its bishops are historically recorded:
- Salomon, attending the Third Council of Constantinople and probably the appended Quinisext Council, alias Council in Trullo ;
- Nicephorus, listed at the Second Council of Nicaea.
Titular see
It has been vacant for decades, and has had only these incumbents, of episcopal rank:
- Francis Esser, Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales , first as Apostolic Vicar of Keetmanshoop , then as Coadjutor Bishop of Keimoes ; later succeeded as Bishop of Keimoes.
- George Henry Speltz as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Winona and as Coadjutor Bishop of Saint Cloud ; later succeeded as Bishop of Saint Cloud.