Comba orKomba (Ancient Greek:τὰ Κὀμβα) was a city inancient Lycia.[1] Comba lay inland, nearMount Cragus, and the citiesOctapolis andSymbra.[1][2] Its site is located nearGömbe inAsiatic Turkey.[3][4]
Comba appears as a bishopric, asuffragan of themetropolitan see ofMyra at a relatively late stage: it is not mentioned in theNotitia Episcopatuum of Pseudo-Epiphanius, composed during the reign ofEmperorHeraclius (c. 640), and its bishops appear only in the second half of the 7th century. The first is John, who participated in theQuinisext Council of 692.[5] Bishop Constantine was at theSecond Council of Nicaea in 787,[6] while another Constantine was one of the fathers of theCouncil of Constantinople (879) that rehabilitated thepatriarchPhotios I of Constantinople.[7]
ANotitia Episcopatuum of the 12th century still reports the presence of this diocese, even if it is not certain that at that time it still existed; the diocese certainly disappeared with the Turkish conquest of the next century.[8]
No longer a residential bishopric, Comba is today listed by theCatholic Church as atitular see.[9]
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