Isba

Isba was a city on the border of ancient Pamphylia.[1] It has been identified with the modern village of Kiesme.[2]

Isba became a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Side, the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima, to which Isba belonged. No longer a residential bishopric, Isba is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[3]

Among the titular bishops of the see was Lionel Scheffer (14 March 1946 3 October 1966), later Vicar Apostolic of Labrador, after whom Schefferville, Quebec is named.[4]

References

  1. Ramsay, W.M. (March 1888). "Antiquities of Souithern Phrygia and the Border Lands (II)". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts. IV (1): 8. JSTOR 496400.
  2. William M. Ramsay (1890, 2013). The Historical Geography of Asia Minor. Retrieved January 14, 2015. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), pp. 908 and 910
  4. Catholic Hierarchy


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