Claneus


Claneus or Klaneos or Klaneous was an ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its site is tentatively located near Turgut, Asiatic Turkey.

History

Claneus was a city in the Roman province of either Phrygia Salutaris or Galatia Secunda.
It became a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan of Pessinus, in Galatia Salutaris.
Two of its bishops are historically recorded :
When Amorium, its former fellow suffragan of Pessinus, became a Metropolitan see in the ninth century, Claneus became its suffragan. They remained within in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople until their suppression after the Turkish conquerors installed Islam instead.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Claneus / Claneo / Clanien.
It is vacant since decades, has had only these incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal rank :