Claneus orKlaneos orKlaneous (Ancient Greek:Κλάνεος^[1] or Κλανεοῦς^[2]) was an ancient city and bishopric inAsia Minor. Its site is tentatively located nearTurgut [tr],Yunak,Turkey.^[3][4] Claneus was in theRoman province of eitherPhrygia Salutaris orGalatia Secunda.

Claneus became asuffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan ofPessinus, inGalatia Salutaris (erected 398). WhenAmorium, its former fellow suffragan of Pessinus, became a Metropolitan see in the ninth century, Claneus became its suffragan.

Two of its bishops are historically recorded:

• Salomon, attending the (Sixth Ecumenical =)Third Council of Constantinople (680–681, which repudiated as heresiesMonothelitism andMonoenergism) and probably the appendedQuinisext Council, alias Council in Trullo (692, addressing matters of discipline);
• Nicephorus, listed at theSecond Council of Nicaea (787, which restored the veneration of icons and repudiatediconoclasm).^[5]

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as LatinTitular bishopric of Claneus (Latin) /Claneo (Curiate Italian) /Clanien(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has been vacant for decades, and has had only these incumbents, of episcopal (lowest) rank:

• Francis Esser,Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales (O.S.F.S.) (German) (13 January 1949 – 12 September 1962), first asApostolic Vicar ofKeetmanshoop (ex-GermanNamibia) (13 January 1949 – 1956), then asCoadjutor Bishop ofKeimoes (South Africa) (1956 – 12 September 1962); later succeeded as Bishop of Keimoes (12 September 1962 – death 8 December 1966).
• George Henry Speltz (12 February 1963 – 31 January 1968) asAuxiliary Bishop ofDiocese of Winona (USA) (12 February 1963 – 4 April 1966) and (promoted) as Coadjutor Bishop ofSaint Cloud (USA) (4 April 1966 – 31 January 1968); later succeeded as Bishop of Saint Cloud (31 January 1968 – 13 January 1987).

• GCatholic - (former and) titular see

Bibliography

• Heinrich Gelzer,Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, in:Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1901, p. 539, nº 247
• Pius Bonifacius Gams,Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 441
• Michel Lequien,Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, vol; I, coll. 491-492
• Raymond Janin, lemma 'Claneus', inDictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, col. 1061

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