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Iconium (Roman Catholic titular see)

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The city of Iconium in Lycaonia has been a Christian bishopric since the 1st century under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1662, a Roman Catholic titular archbishopric (Archidioecesis Iconiensis) was established, although the area had never actually been Catholic in profession.

List of titular bishops

Cardinal Pietro Caprano.

References

Sources

  • Cheney, David M. "Iconium (Titular See)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)
  • Chow, Gabriel. "Titular Metropolitan See of Iconium (Turkey)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 451