Zarzela


Zarela, also known as Durzela, Zorzila, Dyrzela, and Zorzela, was an city and bishopric in ancient Pisidia, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It site is unlocated.

History

Zarzela, identified as modern Kasimler, was a city in the Roman province of Pisidia 'civil Diocese of Asia and became a suffrage of its capital Antiochia in Pisidia's Metropolitan archbishopric, in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which lists it in the Byzantine Notitiae Episcopatuum till late 12th century.
Several historically documented bishops were associated with the see.
and Macedon, che participant in the Council of Constantinople in 381, actually bishop of Xanthus, Lycia in Lycia.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Episcopal Titular bishopric of Zarzela / Zarzelen, but hasn't had a single incumbent yet.