Town and bishopric in the late Roman province of Lydia
Hierocaesarea or Hierokaisareia , from the Greek for 'sacred' and the Latin for 'Caesar's', also known as Hieracome or Hierakome , was a town and bishopric in the late
Roman province of
Lydia , the
metropolitan see of which was
Sardis . It was inhabited during
Hellenistic ,
Roman , and
Byzantine times.
[1]
History
This town is mentioned by
Ptolemy .
[2] Judging from its coins, it worshipped the goddess
Artemis Persica .
Its site is located between
Sazoba and
Kumkuyucak in
Asiatic Turkey .
[1]
[3]
Bishopric
It is mentioned as an episcopal see in all the
Notitiae Episcopatuum until the 12th or 13th century,
[4] but only three of its bishops are known:
The see remains a (vacant)
titular see in the
Roman Catholic Church , with nominal bishops appointed.
[7]
Bishop
Ernesto de Paula (1960.01.09 – 1994.12.31)
Bishop
Timothy Phelim O'Shea , OFMCap (1950.05.24 – 1959.04.25)
Bishop Franz Justus Rarkowski, SM (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, OCD (1902.06.09 – 1902.06.18)
Bishop Désiré-François-Xavier Van Camelbeke, MEP (1884.01.15 – 1901.11.09)
Bishop Luigi Bienna (1845.04.24 – 1882.07.02)
Bishop
John Bede Polding , OSB (later Archbishop) (1832.07.03 – 1842.04.05)
[8]
Bishop-elect José Seguí, OESA (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 , OP (1757.08.13 – 1777.02.06)
Bishop
Louis-Joseph de Châteauneuf de Rochebonne (1720.03.04 – 1722.03.01)
References
^
a
b
Richard Talbert , ed. (2000).
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press. p. 56, and directory notes accompanying.
ISBN
978-0-691-03169-9 .
^
Ptolemy .
The Geography . Vol. 6.2.16.
^
Lund University .
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire .
^ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church and Other Works : In Nine Volumes, Volume 3 (Straker, 1843)
p105 .
^ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon , Volume 1 p95 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p95.
^ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus
p891 .
^
Titular Episcopal See of Hierocæsarea at GCatholic.org.
^
John Bede POLDING .
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Hierocæsarea".
Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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