Pacandus
Pacandus is a Roman catholic Titular bishopric, recorded under the form Pacanden among the titular sees in the official list of the Curia Romana as late as 1884, when it was suppressed as never having existed as a residential see. One titular was Mgr Léon Livinhac, superior general of the White Fathers.
The name of "Pacanden" owes it origin, without doubt, to the bishopric of Acanda in
Lycia (Asia Minor), whose bishop, Panaetius, signed in 458 the letter of the bishops of Lycia to
Emperor Leo I, and which is mentioned in the Notitiae Episcopatuum from the seventh to the thirteenth century among the
Source
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
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