Bindaios

Bindaios, also Binda, was a town of ancient Pisidia inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.[1] Under the name Binda, it became the seat of a bishop.

Its site is located near Küçük Gökceli (formerly Findos) in Asiatic Turkey.[1][2]

Ecclesiastical history

The bishop of Binda was a suffragan bishop of Antiochia in Pisidia.

No longer a residential bishopric, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Past incumbents include John D'Alton (1942–1943), Ignácio Krause (1944–1946), Celestino Fernández y Fernández (1948–1952), Eugen Seiterich (1952–1954), Bernard Joseph Topel (1955–1955), Joseph Calasanz Fließer (1956–1960), Cletus Joseph Benjamin (1960–1961), Gaetano Alibrandi (1961–2003).[3]

References
  1. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 65, and directory notes accompanying.
  2. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  3. a) Eintrag on catholic-hierarchy.org
    b) (in German) Apostolische Nachfolge - Titularsitze
    c) Entry on GCatholic.com

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