- Linoe
Linoe is a Roman Catholic
titular see in the former Roman province ofBithynia Secunda .History
It is known only from the "
Notitiae Episcopatuum " which mention it as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as asuffragan of thearchbishopric of Nicaea . The Byzantine EmperorJustinian must have raised it to the rank of a city. It is probably the modern Turkish town ofBiledjik , a station on theHnidar-Pasha railway toKonia . It became an important centre for the cultivation of thesilk-worm .Lequien ("Oriens christianus", I, 657) mentions four bishops of Linoe:*Anastasius, who attended a
Council of Constantinople in 692
*Leo, at theSecond Council of Nicea in 787
*Basil and Cyril, the one a partisan of St. Ignatius, the other of Photius, at theFourth Council of Constantinople in 879.ource
*CathEncy|title=Linoe|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09272a.htm
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