Cestra

Cestra (Cestrus) is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Asia Minor, but the site has not yet been identified.

Hierocles (709), Georgius Cyprius (ed. Heinrich Gelzer, p. 836), and Parthey (Notitiae episcopatuum), place this city in Isauria, as a suffragan of Seleuccia.

Lequien supposed that the town was situated near the River Cestros, in Pamphylia, and took its name from that stream. This hypothesis caused an odd mistake in the Gerarchia cattolica (Rome, 1895, 302), according to which Cestra is "Ak-Sou"; this is the name of the River Cestros, not a city.

Bishops

Bishop Epiphanius was present at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and subscribed the letter to Emperor Leo^{[disambiguation needed ]} in 458 (Lequien, II, 1025). Another, Elpidius, was a partisan of Severus (Chronique de Michael le Syrien, ed. Chalot, 267; Brooks, The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, 159, 161).

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Cestra". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.