Claneus or Klaneos or Klaneous (Ancient Greek: Κλάνεος[1] or Κλανεοῦς[2]) was an ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor.
Its site is tentatively located near Turgut, Yunak, Turkey.[3][4]
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 (erected 398). 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 (Sixth Ecumenical =) Third Council of Constantinople (680–681, which repudiated as heresies Monothelitism and Monoenergism) and probably the appended Quinisext Council, alias Council in Trullo (692, addressing matters of discipline);
- Nicephorus, listed at the Second Council of Nicaea (787, which restored the veneration of icons and repudiated iconoclasm).[5]
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Claneus (Latin) / Claneo (Curiate Italian) / Clanien(sis) (Latin adjective).
It has been vacant for decades, and has had only these incumbents, of episcopal (lowest) rank :
- Francis Esser, Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales (O.S.F.S.) (German) (13 January 1949 – 12 September 1962), first as Apostolic Vicar of Keetmanshoop (ex-German Namibia) (13 January 1949 – 1956), then as Coadjutor Bishop of Keimoes (South Africa) (1956 – 12 September 1962); later succeeded as Bishop of Keimoes (12 September 1962 – death 8 December 1966).
- George Henry Speltz (12 February 1963 – 31 January 1968) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Winona (USA) (12 February 1963 – 4 April 1966) and (promoted) as Coadjutor Bishop of Saint Cloud (USA) (4 April 1966 – 31 January 1968); later succeeded as Bishop of Saint Cloud (31 January 1968 – 13 January 1987).
References
- ↑ Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 697.
- ↑ thus in some of the Notitiae Episcopatuum
- ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 62, and directory notes accompanying.
- ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ↑ Darrouzès Jean, Listes épiscopales du concile de Nicée (787), in Revue des études byzantines, 33 (1975), p. 44.
Sources and external links
- Bibliography
- Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, in: Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1901, p. 539, nº 247
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 441
- Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, vol; I, coll. 491-492
- Raymond Janin, lemma 'Claneus', in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, col. 1061
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