Linoe, a titular see of Bithynia Secunda, known only from the “Notitiae Episcopatuum” which mention it as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a suffragan of Nimes. The Emperor Justinian must have raised it to the rank of a city. It is probably the modern town of Biledjik, a station on the Haidar-Pasha railway to Konia, with 10,000 inhabitants, 7000 of whom are Mussulmans, and 3000 Armenians, 600 of the latter being Catholics. It is an important center for the cultivation of the silkworm. Lequien (Oriens christianus, I, 657) mentions four bishops of Linoe: Anastasius, who attended the Council of Constantinople (692); Leo, at Nieces (787), Basil and Cyril, the one a partisan of St. Ignatius, the other of Photius, at Constantinople (879).
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