City in ancient Lycia
Comba or Komba (
Ancient Greek : τὰ Κὀμβα ) was a city in
ancient Lycia .
[1]
Comba lay inland, near
Mount Cragus , and the cities
Octapolis and
Symbra .
[1]
[2]
Its site is located near
Gömbe in
Asiatic Turkey .
[3]
[4]
Comba appears as a bishopric, a
suffragan of the
metropolitan see of
Myra at a relatively late stage: it is not mentioned in the
Notitia Episcopatuum of Pseudo-Epiphanius, composed during the reign of
Emperor
Heraclius (c. 640), and its bishops appear only in the second half of the 7th century. The first is John, who participated in the
Quinisext Council of 692.
[5] Bishop Constantine was at the
Second Council of Nicaea in 787,
[6] while another Constantine was one of the fathers of the
Council of Constantinople (879) that rehabilitated the
patriarch
Photios I of Constantinople .
[7]
A
Notitia Episcopatuum of the 12th century still reports the presence of this diocese, even if it is not certain that at that time it still existed; the diocese certainly disappeared with the Turkish conquest of the next century.
[8]
No longer a residential bishopric, Comba is today listed by the
Catholic Church as a
titular see .
[9]
Bishops
John (mentioned in 692)
Constantine (mentioned in 787)
Constantine (II) (mentioned in 879)
Titular bishops
Tarcisius Henricus Josephus van Valenberg,
OFM Cap. (December 10, 1934 - December 18, 1984)
References
^
a
b Albert Forbiger (1844),
Handbuch Der Alten Geographie, Volume 2 , p. 261, retrieved January 6, 2015
^
Ptolemy .
The Geography . Vol. 5.3.
^
Richard Talbert , ed. (2000).
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press. p. 65, and directory notes accompanying.
ISBN
978-0-691-03169-9 .
^
Lund University .
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire .
^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio , book XII, coll. 616, 629, 652 and 677.
^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio , book XII, coll. 998, 1106, and XIII, coll. 148 and 393.
^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio , books XVII-XVIII, col. 377.
^
Gustav Parthey (1866),
Hieroclis Synecdemus et notitiae graecae episcopatuum , p. 112, No. 270
^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1 ), p. 873
36°33′05″N 29°40′10″E / 36.551265°N 29.669357°E / 36.551265; 29.669357
External links
Catholic Hierarchy
www.gcatholic.org
Ptolemy at University of Chicago
Pius Bonifacius Gams,
Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 450
Michel Lequien,
Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus , Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 991-992
Raymond Janin, v. Comba , in
Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. XIII, Paris 1956, col. 355