Titular see
Basilinopolis or Basilinoupolis (Greek: Βασιλινούπολις) was a town in
Bithynia Prima (civil
Diocese of Pontus ), which obtained the rank of a city under, or perhaps shortly before,
Roman Emperor
Julian the Apostate , whose mother was
Basilina .
[1]
Its exact site is not known.
W. M. Ramsay , placed it on the western side of the
Lake of Nicaea , near Pazarköy, between
Kios (now
Gemlik ) and
Nicaea (
Iznik ).
[2] Modern scholars tentatively identify its site near
Yalakdere in
Kocaeli Province .
[3]
[4]
Bishopric
It was a
suffragan of the
Metropolis of Nicomedia , in the sway of the
Patriarchate of Constantinople .
At the
Council of Chalcedon (451), the Metropolitans of Nicomedia and Nicaea were in sharp dispute about jurisdiction over the see of Basilinopolis. The council decided to assign it as a suffragan of Nicomedia.
[5] It was still reckoned as such in 1170 under
Byzantine emperor
Manuel Comnenus .
[6]
The see does not figure in a
Notitia episcopatuum of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople after the 15th century, probably indicating that the city was destroyed in the
Osmanli conquest.
[7]
Historically documented bishops were:
Catholic titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in no later than the 17th century as Latin
titular bishopric of Basilinopolis (Latin; adjective Basilinopolitanus ) or Basilinopoli (
Curiate Italian ).
[14]
It is vacant since 1973, having had the following incumbents, all of episcopal rank :
Luo Wenzao (羅文藻), O.P. (1674.01.03 – 1690.04.10)
Edme Bélot,
M.E.P. (1696.10.20 – 1717.01.02)
Karl Friedrich von Wendt (1784.06.25 – 1825.01.21)
John Joseph Hughes (later Archbishop) (1837.08.08 – 1842.12.20)
François Baudichon (1844.08.14 – 1882.06.11)
François-Eugène Lions (李萬美), M.E.P. (1871.12.22 – 1893.04.24)
Karl Ernst Schrod (1894.04.17 – 1914.04.10)
Pedro Pablo Drinot y Piérola,
SS.CC. (1920.10.21 – 1935.09.11)
Alexandre Poncet ,
S.M. (1935.11.11 – 1973.09.18)
Notes and references
^
Mansi , VII, 305.
^ Hist. Geogr. of Asia Minor, 179.
^
Richard Talbert , ed. (2000).
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press. p. 52, and directory notes accompanying.
ISBN
978-0-691-03169-9 .
^
Lund University .
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire .
^ Mansi, ibid., 301-314.
^
Hierocles ,
Synecdemos , ed. Parthey, 169.
^
"Basilinopolis" in Catholic Encyclopedia
^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio , vol. VI, coll. 760 e 949.
^ Mansi, op. cit., t. VIII, col. 1050.
^
https://www.degruyter.com/view/PMBZ/PMBZ17925 'Sisinnios', in Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit , Berlin-Boston (2013), #6715.
^ Mansi, op. cit., t. XIII, col. 145 e 389.
^ Mansi, op. cit., t. XVII-XVIII, col. 377.
^
http://www.doaks.org/resources/seals/byzantine-seals/BZS.1951.31.5.323 Michael bishop of Basilinoupolis, Online Catalogue of Byzantine Seals, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1 ), p. 847
Sources and external links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "
Basilinopolis ".
Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Bibliography - ecclesiastical
Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 443
Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus , Paris 1740, vol. I, coll. 623-626
Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi , vol. 5, p. 115; vol. 6, p. 117
Raymond Janin, lemma 'Basilinopolis' in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. VI, 1932, coll. 1236-1237
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