Arneae Explained

Arneae or Arneai (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀρνεαί) was a small city of ancient Lycia mentioned by Capito in his Isaurica.^[1] It is located near Ernes, in the interior of Lycia where archaeological remains have been found.

Bishopric

Since it was in the Roman province of Lycia, the bishopric of Arneae was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Myra, the province's capital. No name of any of its bishops is identified in Le Quien's Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus. However, the see appears in ninth place among the suffragans of Arneae in the Notitiae Episcopatuum of Pseudo-Epiphanius, composed under Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in about 640.^[2]

No longer a residential bishopric, Arneae is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.^[3]

Notable residents

• Lalla of Arneae, first century

References

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Notes and References

1. [Stephanus of Byzantium|Steph. B.]
2. Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, in: Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1901, p. 539, nº 262.
3. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013), p. 839