Ancient city in Asia Minor
Area around Abonotechos Abonoteichos (
Ancient Greek : Ἀβώνου τεῖχος ,
romanized : Abṓnou teîchos ,
demonym : Αβωνοτειχίτης , Abōnoteichítēs ), later Ionopolis (Ιωνόπολις , Ionópolis ;
Turkish :
İnebolu ), was an ancient city in
Asia Minor , on the site of modern
İnebolu (in Asian Turkey), and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Abonoteichos was a town on the coast of
Paphlagonia , memorable as the birthplace of the infamous fortuneteller
Alexander Abonoteichites , founder of the cult of
Glycon , of whom
Lucian left an amusing account in the treatise bearing his name.
[1] According to Lucian, Alexander petitioned the
Roman emperor (probably
Antoninus Pius ) that the name of his native place should be changed from Abonoteichos to Ionopolis ; and whether the emperor granted the request or not, we know that the town was called Ionopolis in later times.
[2]
Not only does this name occur in
Marcian of Heraclea
[3] and
Hierocles ,
[4] but on coins of the time of Antoninus and
Lucius Verus we find the legend Ionopoliton (ΙΩΝΟΠΟΑΙΤΩΝ ), as well as Abonoteichiton (ΑΒΩΝΟΤΕΙΧΙΤΩΝ ). The modern Turkish name
İnebolu is evidently a corruption of Ionopolis.
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
It was the site of a 2nd-century AD temple of
Apollo .
[9]
Ecclesiastical history of Ionopolis
It was important enough in the
Roman province of
Paphlagonia to become a
suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan of its capital
Gangra ,
[10] but faded later.
Michel LeQuien
[11] mentions eight bishops between 325 and 878
[12] and Ionopolis is mentioned in the later “
Notitiae episcopatuum .”
[13]
Catholic titular see
The
diocese was nominally revived as a
Latin Catholic
titular bishopric under the name Ionopolis, which was spelled Jonopolis in the
Roman Curia (besides Italian Gionopoli ) from 1929 to 1971.
It has been vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :
Titular Bishop Wilhelm Hermann Ignaz Ferdinand von Wolf-Metternich zu Gracht (1720.09.16 – 1722.10.28)
[23]
[24]
Titular Bishop Joannes Karski (1771.07.29 – 1785)
[25]
[26]
Titular Bishop
Bishop-elect John Murphy (1815.02.21 – 1815.02.21)
Titular Bishop Bishop-elect Ferdinand Corbi (1833.09.30 – ?)
Titular Bishop Wincenty Lipski (1856.09.18 – 1875.12.13)
[27]
[28]
Titular Archbishop James Gibbons (1877.05.29 – 1877.10.03), previously Titular Bishop of
Adramyttium (1868.03.03 – 1872.07.30) &
Apostolic Vicar of
North Carolina (USA) (1868.03.03 – 1877.05.20), also Bishop of
Richmond (USA) (1872.07.30 – 1877.05.29); later
Coadjutor Archbishop of
Baltimore (USA) (1877.05.29 – 1877.10.03), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore (1877.10.03 – 1921.03.24),
Cardinal-Priest of
S. Maria in Trastevere (1887.03.17 – 1921.03.24), becoming
Protopriest of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1920.12.07 – 1921.03.24)
Titular Archbishop Francis Xavier Leray (1879.09.30 – 1883.12.28)
Titular Bishop Giacomo Daddi (1884.03.24 – 1897?)
Titular Bishop Andrea Cassato (1898.03.24 – 1913.05.01)
Titular Bishop Henri Doulcet,
Passionists (C.P.) (1913.06.03 – 1914.03.17); previously Bishop of
Nikopol (Bulgaria) (1895.01.07 – 1913.03.31); later Titular Archbishop of
Dioclea (1914.03.17 – 1916.07.27)
Titular Bishop Joseph John Fox (1914.11.07 – 1915.03.14)
Titular Bishop Nicolás Gonzalez Pérez,
Claretians (C.M.F.) (1918.08.24 – 1935.03.23)
Titular Bishop Eugène-Louis-Marie Le Fer de la Motte (1935.07.08 – 1936.07.20)
Titular Bishop Johann Baptist Dietz (1936.07.25 – 1939.04.10),
Coadjutor Bishop of
Fulda (Germany) (1936.07.25 – 1939.04.10), succeeding as Bishop of Fulda (1939.04.10 – 1958.10.24), later Titular Archbishop of
Cotrada (1958.10.24 – 1959.12.10)
Titular Bishop Maurice-Auguste-Eugène Foin (1939.06.10 – 1948.07.10)
Titular Bishop Hubert Joseph Paulissen,
Society of African Missions (S.M.A.) (1951.11.15 – 1966.08.12)
Notes
^
Smith, William (1857),
"Abonoteichos" , in Smith, William (ed.),
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography , vol. 1, London: Walton & Maberly, p. 5
^
Lucian , Alex § 58
^
Marcian of Heraclea , Peripl. p. 72
^
Synecdemus , p. 696
^
Strabo , p. 545
^
Arrian ,
Periplus Ponti Euxini p. 15
^ Ptol. v. 4 § 2
^
Stephanus of Byzantium , s. v. Ἀβώνου τείχος
^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913).
"Ionopolis" .
Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^
Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin , Historical and geographical description of Asia Minor, including ancient times, the Middle Ages and modern times (A. Bertrand, 1845) p436
^
Le Quien, Michel (1740).
Oriens Christianus, in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus: quo exhibentur ecclesiæ, patriarchæ, cæterique præsules totius Orientis. Tomus primus: tres magnas complectens diœceses Ponti, Asiæ & Thraciæ, Patriarchatui Constantinopolitano subjectas (in Latin). Paris: Ex Typographia Regia. col. 555.
OCLC
955922585 .
^
CUINET, La Turquie d'Asie, IV (Paris, 1894), p466-69 .
^
The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908 .
^ Roderic Mullen, The expansion of Christianity (Brill, 2004) p. 123.
^ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University press, 2005)
p88 .
^ Eduard Schwartz, Collectio Novariensis de re Eutychis (Walter de Gruyter, 1 July 1962)
p207 .
^
N. bishop of Ionopolis (tenth century) .
^ Jean-Claude Cheynet, Studies in Byzantine Sigillography, Volume 8 (Walter de Gruyter, 2003)
p58 .
^
Niketas bishop of Ionopolis (and chartoularios) of the Great Orphanotropheion (eleventh century).
^ Elizabeth Jeffreys, John F. Haldon, Robin Cormack, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford University Press, 2008)
p154 .
^
John bishop of Ionopolis (eleventh century) .
^ McGeer, Eric; Nesbitt, John;
Oikonomides, Nicolas , eds. (2001).
Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 4: The East . Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. pp. 49–50.
ISBN
0-88402-282-X .
^ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 229
^ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1721, Number 6.
^ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 244, and Page 454.
^ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1772, Number 34.
^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 178, Number 14.787
^ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 323.
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