Parnassus (see)
For other uses, see Parnassus (disambiguation).
Parnassus is a former Roman town and bishopric and present Catholic titular see in Asia Minor (Asian modern Turkey).
History
As a town in the Roman province of Cappadocia Tertia, Parnassus was important enough to become a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan of Mocissus, but it faded. Its site is near modern Parlasan.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric in 1895. It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank:
- Johann Baptist Schneider (1896.06.25 – 1905.01.26)
- Ludovic Joseph Legraive (1907.10.17 – 1940.06.10)
- Arturo Mery Beckdorf (1941.03.22 – 1944.07.29), later Titular Archbishop of Phasis (1955.04.20 – 1976.05.28)
- Daniel Figueroa Villón (1945.04.12 – 1946.09.22)
- Daniel Tavares Baeta Neves (1947.03.29 – 1958.05.16)
- Adolfo Luís Bossi, Capuchin Friars (O.F.M. Cap.) (1958.06.18 – 2002.05.08).
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