CARMEIA. – The information available concerning the city and the diocese is scarce and uncertain. C. was a city of Apulia near the Gargano. Among the 24 episcopal sees of «regio II», Apulia, an episcopate «Carmeianum» is recorded prior to the Lombard invasion; a Probus, episcopus Carmeniensis or Carmenianensis, is recorded as having participated in the Roman Synods of 501 and 502.
BIBL.: L. Duchesne, Les évêchés d'Italie et l'invasion lombarde, Rome 1906, pp. 19, 38; Lanzoni, p. 284.
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