Diocese of Oca (Asia Minor)

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Oca is an ancient city and bishopric in present-day Anatolia (Asiatic Turkey), restored as a Latin titular see.

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Its site is located in Biga district of Çanakkale Province.

Ancient history

Oca was a city in the Roman province of Hellespontus, in Asia Minor.

It was a bishopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cyzicus.

Titular see

It was nominally restored as a Latin titular bishopric of the lowest (Episcopal) rank in 1933.

No incumbents are recorded yet.

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