Silandus (titular see)

Silandus is a Catholic titular see. Its origin was a city in Lydia, suffragan of the archdiocese of Sardis, the present town of Selendi, Turkey.

The see of Silandus is mentioned in the Greek "Notitiae episcopatuum" until the thirteenth century; the city is not mentioned by any ancient geographer or historian. We possess some of its coins representing the Hermus. Some inscriptions but no ruins are now found there.

Bishops

The list of bishops of Silandus given by Le Quien, "Oriens christianus", I, 881, needs correction:

*Markus, present at the Council of Nicaea, 325 [Less probably bishop of Blaundus, as suggested by Ramsay, "Asia Minor", 134.]
*Alcimedes at Chalcedon, 451 [Anatolius, who signed the letter of the bishops of the province to Emperor Leo, 458, belongs rather to Sala, Ramsay, ibid., 122.] ;
*Andreas, at the Council of Constantinople 680; Stephanus, at Constantinople, 787;
*Eustathius, at Constantinople, 879 [Perhaps Bishop of Blaundus.] .

The bishop mentioned as having taken part in the Council of Constantinople, 1351, belongs to the See of Synaus [Wächter, "Der Verfall des Griechentums in Kleinasien im XIV Jahrhundert", Leipzig, 1903, 63, n. 1.] .

References

*William Mitchell Ramsay, "Asia Minor" (London, 1890), 122;
*Texier, "Asie mineure" (Paris, 1862), 276.

Notes

External link

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13789b.htm "Catholic Encyclopedia" article]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3s19.html "Catholic Hierarchy" page]