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Sebela was an Ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Sebela was an Ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Sebela, identified with modern Kestelyalasi in present Anatolia (Asian Turkey), was among the cities in the Roman province of Isauria of enough importance to become a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Seleucia in the sway of the Patriarchate of Antioch, yet destined to fade.
The see is named in the Byzantine imperial Notitiae Episcopatuum from the 7th till the 10th century. Its only historically documented bishop, Leo(n) or Leontius, participated according to Jean Darrouzès in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787; Lequien however assigns him to the see off Psibela in Lycaonia.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Sebela (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Sebelien(sis) (Latin adjective).
It is vacant since decades, having has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :
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