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Cerasa is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
It goes back a former diocese in the Roman province of Asia and Lydia in western Turkey. It belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Sardis.
Cerasa, identifiable with Eliesler in modern Turkey, is an ancient episcopal see of the Roman province of Lydia in the civil Diocese of Asia. It was part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sardis.
The lists of participants in the ecumenical councils have handed the names of four bishops of this ancient episcopal:
Cerasa survives today as titular bishop but has been vacant since May 2, 2001.
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