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 early-modern Gaziri, where there is a wall-surrounded island in Lake Hoyran called Limenia, housing ruins that include those of a temple of Artemis. 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.It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta as Auxiliary Bishop of Asunción ; later Titular Archbishop of Cyrrhus as Coadjutor Archbishop of Asunción, succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Asunción, also President of Episcopal Conference of Paraguay, emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Musti, died 1977
- André Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti on emeritate, formerly Bishop of Valença, Bishop of Taubaté
- Francis Anthony Marrocco as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto ; later Bishop of Peterborough .