Editing Anazarbus (section)

== Ecclesiastical history ==
Anazarbus was the capital and so also from 553 (the date of the [[Second Council of Constantinople]]) the [[metropolitan see]] of the Late [[Roman province]] of [[Cilicia Secunda]].<ref name="edwards4">{{cite book|last1=Edwards|first1=Robert W., "Anazarbos" |title=The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology, ed., Paul Corby Finney |date=2016 |publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing| location=Grand Rapids, Michigan |isbn=978-0-8028-9016-0| pages=57–58}}</ref><ref>''Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur ...'' by Michel Le Quien ((O.P.)), ''Oriens christianus'' (ex Typographia Regia, 1740) [https://books.google.com/books?id=0agp0mJFG_sC p40].</ref>

In the 4th century, one of the bishops of Anazarbus was Athanasius, a "consistent expounder of the theology of Arius." His theological opponent, Athanasius of Alexandria, in ''De Synodis'' 17, 1 refers to Anazarbus as Ναζαρβῶν.<ref>R. P. C. Hanson, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy 318–381 (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1988), 41-3, quote, 43.</ref>

[[Maximin of Anazarbus]] attended the [[Council of Chalcedon]].<ref>[http://www.orthodoxa.org/GB/orthodoxy/canonlaw/canons3econcileGB.htm The Cannons of the two hundred Holy and Blessed Fathers who met at Ephesus].</ref><ref>Charles Joseph Hefele, A History of the Councils of the Church: from the Original Documents, to the close of the Second Council of Nicaea A.D. 787 (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1 February 2007) page 151.</ref>

A 6th century ''[[Notitia Episcopatuum]]'' indicates that it had as [[suffragan]] sees [[Epiphania, Cilicia|Epiphania]], [[Alexandria Minor]], [[Irenopolis, Cilicia|Irenopolis]], [[Flavias]], [[Castabala (city)|Castabala]] and [[Aegeae (Cilicia)|Aegeae]]. [[Arsuz|Rhosus]] was also subject to Anazarbus, but after the 6th century was made exempt, and [[Mopsuestia]] was raised to the rank of [[autocephalous]] [[metropolitan see]], though without suffragans.<ref>Michel Le Quien, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_86weAemI-e4C ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus''], Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 885–888</ref><ref>Gaetano Moroni, ''Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=I7QAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA40 Vol. 2], pp.&nbsp;40–41</ref><ref>Siméon Vailhé, v. ''Anazarbe'', in [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6561037d/f776.image ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''], vol. II, Paris 1914, coll. 1504–1506</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/echosdorient10pariuoft#page/n99/mode/2up ''Echos d'Orient'' 1907], p. 95.</ref>

=== Latin Catholic titular see ===
The [[titular archbishopric]] was revived in the 18th century as a [[titular see|see]] of the [[Latin Catholic]] church, Anazarbus.<ref>''[[Annuario Pontificio]] 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}).</ref>

It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, generally of the highest (Metropolitan) rank, ''with an episcopal (lowest rank) exception:''
* Titular Archbishop Giuseppe Maria Saporiti (1726.04.08 – 1743.12.02)
* ''Titular Bishop Isidro Alfonso Cavanillas (1753.04.09 – 1755.05.12)''
* Titular Archbishop Gerolamo Formagliari (1760.07.21 – 1781)
* Titular Archbishop Romain-Frédéric Gallard (1839.02.21 – 1839.09.28)
* Titular Archbishop [[Andon Bedros Hassoun]] (1842.06.07 – 1846.08.02),  as [[Coadjutor Archeparch]] of [[Istanbul of the Armenians]] (Turkey) (1842.06.07 – 1846.08.02), succeeded as Archeparch of Istanbul of the Armenians (Turkey) (1846.08.02 – 1866.09.14), later Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon) ([1866.09.14] 1867.07.12 – 1881.06), created [[Cardinal-Priest]] of [[Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio]] (1880.12.16 – 1884.02.28)
* Titular Archbishop Giorgio Labella, [[Friars Minor]] (O.F.M.) (1847.06.04 – 1860.10.27)
* Titular Archbishop Charles Petre Eyre (1868.12.03 – 1878.03.15)
* Titular Archbishop John Baptist Salpointe (1884.04.22 – 1885.08.18)
* Titular Archbishop [[Michael Logue]] (1887.04.19 – 1887.12.03) (later Cardinal)*
* Titular Archbishop François Laurencin (1888.06.01 – 1892.12.18)
* Titular Archbishop Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas (1893.06.15 – 1897.09.26)
* Titular Archbishop Raimondo Ingheo (1907.12.16 – 1911.07.08)
* Titular Archbishop Cláudio José Gonçalves Ponce de Leon, [[Lazarists]] (C.M.) (1912.01.09 – 1924.05.26)
* Titular Archbishop Raymund Netzhammer, [[Benedictine Order]](] O.S.B.) (1924.07.14 – 1945.09.18)
* Titular Archbishop Michele Akras (1945.10.27 – 1947.02.05)
* Titular Archbishop Heinrich Döring (ハインリヒ・デーリング), S.J. (1948.01.15 – 1951.12.17)
* Titular Archbishop Joseph-Marie Le Gouaze (1955.06.24 – 1964.07.31)

=== Armenian Catholic titular see ===
In the 19th century, an [[Armenian Catholic]] [[titular bishopric]] of '''Anazarbus (of the Armenians)''' ('''Anazarbus degli Armeni''' in Curiate Italian) was established.

It was a suppressed in 1933,<ref name="catholic-hierarchy1">[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/barpi.html ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi'', Volume 8, Page 99, and Page 328].</ref> having had a single incumbent, of the intermediary (archiepiscopal) rank :
* Titular Archbishop [[Avedis Arpiarian]] (1898.04.05 – 1911.08.27), previously Eparch of [[Kharput of the Armenians]] (1890.09.23 – 1898.04.05); later Eparch of [[Marasc of the Armenians]] (1911.08.27 – 1928.06.29), [[Auxiliary Eparch]] of the patriarchate [[Cilicia of the Armenians]] (Lebanon) (1928.06.29 – 1931.10.17), [[Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia]] (Lebanon) ([1931.10.17] 1933.03.13 – 1937.10.26)