Marciana was a town in ancient Lycia, with a bishopric that was a suffragan of that of Myra.[1][2]

The author of the article in the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia used the spelling Marciane.[3]

The town is not mentioned by any author and its exact location remains unknown, but the see figures in the Notitiae episcopatuum from the 6th to the 12th or 13th century.[3]

Bishops

Le Quien (Oriens christianus, I, 983) cites three bishops:

References

  1. Joseph Bingham, The Antiquities of the Christian Church (H.G. Bohn 1856), p. 401
  2. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 922
  3. 1 2 3 Sophrone Pétridès, "Marciane" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910)
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