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This town is mentioned by [[Ptolemy]] (VI, ii, 16). Judging from its coins, it worshipped the goddess [[Artemis Persica]]. |
This town is mentioned by [[Ptolemy]] (VI, ii, 16). Judging from its coins, it worshipped the goddess [[Artemis Persica]]. |
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The site of Hieroaesarea must have been between the modern [[Turkish]] villages of Beyova and Sasova, seven or eight miles southeast of [[Thyatira]], on the left bank of the [[Koum-Chai]], a tributary of the [[Hermus]], in the Ottoman [[vilayet of Smyrna]]. |
The site of Hieroaesarea must have been between the modern [[Turkish]] villages of Beyova and Sasova, seven or eight miles southeast of [[Thyatira]], on the left bank of the [[Koum-Chai]], a tributary of the [[Hermus]], in the Ottoman [[vilayet of Smyrna]].<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07344a.htm www.newadvent.org ].</ref> |
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==Bishopric== |
==Bishopric== |
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It is mentioned as an episcopal see in all the ''[[Notitiae Episcopatuum]]'' until the 12th or 13th century, but we know only three of its bishops: |
It is mentioned as an episcopal see in all the ''[[Notitiae Episcopatuum]]'' until the 12th or 13th century, but we know only three of its bishops: |
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Revision as of 12:26, 24 May 2016
Hierocaesarea, from the Greek for "sacred" and the Latin for "Caesar's" was a town and bishopric in the late Roman province of Lydia, the metropolitan see of which was Sardis.
History
This town is mentioned by Ptolemy (VI, ii, 16). Judging from its coins, it worshipped the goddess Artemis Persica.
The site of Hieroaesarea must have been between the modern Turkish villages of Beyova and Sasova, seven or eight miles southeast of Thyatira, on the left bank of the Koum-Chai, a tributary of the Hermus, in the Ottoman vilayet of Smyrna.[1]
Bishopric
It is mentioned as an episcopal see in all the Notitiae Episcopatuum until the 12th or 13th century, but we know only three of its bishops:
- Cosinius, at the Council of Chalcedon, 451;
- Zacharias, at the Second Council of Nicaea, 787;
- Theodore, at the Photian Council of Constantinople, 879.
The see remains a (Vacant) titular See in the Roman Catholic Church, with nominal bishops appointed.[2]
- Bishop Ernesto de Paula (1960.01.09 – 1994.12.31)
- Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea, O.F.M. Cap. (1950.05.24 – 1959.04.25)
- Bishop Franz Justus Rarkowski, S.M. (1938.01.07 – 1950.02.09)
- Bishop John Marie Laval (1911.09.11 – 1937.06.04)
- Bishop Giuseppe Astuni (1903.01.21 – 1911.02.21)
- Bishop Alessandro Beniamino Zanecchia-Ginnetti, O.C.D. (1902.06.09 – 1902.06.18)
- Bishop Désiré-François-Xavier Van Camelbeke, M.E.P. (1884.01.15 – 1901.11.09)
- Bishop Luigi Bienna (1845.04.24 – 1882.07.02)
- Bishop John Bede Polding, O.S.B. (later Archbishop) (1832.07.03 – 1842.04.05)
- Bishop-elect José Seguí, O.E.S.A. (later Archbishop) (1829.07.27 – 1830.07.05)
- Bishop Antonio Maria Trigona (later Archbishop) (1806.03.31 – 1817.07.28)
- Bishop Gregory Stapleton (1800.11.07 – 1802.05.23)
- Bishop Charles Berington (1786.06.02 – 1798.06.08)
- Bishop Santiago Hernández, O.P. (1757.08.13 – 1777.02.06)
- Bishop Louis-Joseph de Châteauneuf de Rochebonne (1720.03.04 – 1722.03.01)
Sources
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Hierocæsarea". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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- ^ www.newadvent.org .
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Hierocæsarea at GCatholic.org.