Augustopolis in Phrygia

Augustopolis in Phrygia was a city and bishopric in the Roman province of Phrygia, which remains a Latin Catholic and an Orthodox titular see.

Location and names

It was situated in the plain of Akar Çay (Kaystros).[1] The Annuario Pontificio associates it with a modern Surmene, not the Sürmene on a part of the Black Sea coast, which belonged to the late Roman province of Pontus.

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica said that this Augustopolis (which presumably had its name changed in honour of the Emperor Augustus) was "formerly Anabura (Surmeneh)".[2] The Phrygian town of Anabura is mentioned by Livy as lying on the route of the consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso from Synnada to the sources of the Alander.[3]

Ecclesiastical history

Augustopolis in Phrygia became a Christian bishopric. In the Late Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris Prima, it was a suffragan of the capital Synnada in Phrygia's Metropolitan Archbishopric.

The names of four of its residential bishops are known because of being mentioned in extant documents.

Titular Sees

Augustopolis in Phrygia is today included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees [6] since the diocese's nominal restoration in the 15th century as a titular bishopric, under the name Augustopolis, until its renaming in 1933, avoiding confusion with Augustopolis in Palestina.

It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank with an archiepiscopal (intermediary rank) exception :

It is also an Orthodox titular metropolis in Turkey of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Map 62 (Princeton University Press)
  2. ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, "Phrygia"
  3. ↑ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), entry "Anabura"
  4. ↑ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 845-846
  5. ↑ G. Bardy, v. Augustopolis, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. V, 1931, col. 657
  6. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 842

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