Algiza

Algiza is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its modern location is Baliapasakov in Asian Turkey.

History

Algiza was important enough in the Late Roman province of Asia Prima to be a suffragan of its capital Ephesus's Metropolitan Archbishop, but faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric, first under the name Argiza, since 1929 renamed Algiza.

It is vacant, having had the following 20th-century incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank except the last of archiepiscopal (intermediary) rank :

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