Leuce (titular see)

Leuce was a town and episcopal see in the late Roman province of Thracia.[1]

The town

The town, which is not mentioned by any ancient historian or geographer, has not been identified with certainty. Suggestions include the villages of Lefke and Capolova in northern Greece.[1][2]

The bishopric

Leuce had a bishop by at latest 381, when a Bishop Symeon of Leuce took part in the First Council of Constantinople. The Notitiae Episcopatuum of the 10th to the 13th centuries mention it among the suffragans of Philippopolis,[2] the metropolitan see of Thracia, thus ruling out the identification of Leuce with today's Plovdiv in Bulgaria, although this identification has been proposed.[2]

Leuce is now listed in the Annuario Pontificio as a titular see of the Catholic Church.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 917
  2. 1 2 3 Sophrone Pétridès, "Leuce" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910)
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