Chersonesus in Europa


Chersonesus in Europa was an Ancient city and bishopric and is now a Latin Catholic titular see in Turkish Thrace, near modern Hexamili.

History

Hereclea was important enough in the Roman province of Europa to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital Perinthus's Metropolitan Archbishopric. Yet it would fade.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in 1933.
It is vacant since decades, having had only these two consecutive incumbents :