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Roman and Byzantine-era town in southern Turkey
Location of Isauria in Asia Minor
Isauropolis (
Ancient Greek : Ἰσαυρόπολις )
[1] was a
Roman and
Byzantine -era town in southern Turkey.
[2]
Possibly also known as
Isaura Vetus , the city was in the Anatolian countryside of what was
Lycaonia in today's southern Turkey and may have been the chief town of Isauria (Ἰσαυρία) district.
[3] The town was mentioned by
Sozomen ,
[4]
Ptolemy ,
[5] and
Heirocles .
[6]
About 450
Maximinus entered the town in his war with
Zeno .
[7]
Its location is not known, but suggestions include
Siristat or
Tris Maden , about 13 mi (21 km) west of
Isaura , or
Isaura Vetus . It must have been near
Isaura Nova with which it was joined.
Bishopric
The city was also the site of an ancient
bishopric
[8] which dates from the
early Christian era.
Bishops from here attended both
Council of Nicea and
Chalcedon . There is no mention of Isauropolis in any
Notitiae episcopatuum , so Ramsay supposes that the Diocese was joined with that of
Leontopolis which is mentioned in all the "Notitiae".
[9] The
see was resurrected in 1925
[10] as a
titular see of the
Roman Catholic Church .
[11]
Known bishops
Ancient bishopric
Titular see
Bernard Gozdzki Auxiliary Bishop in
Poznań (Poland-Lithuania) July 6, 1722 – March 16, 1725.
Gregorio de Molleda y Clerque September 26, 1725 – August 3, 1729
Louis-Mathias-Joseph de Barral Coadjutor Bishop of Troyes (France) September 15, 1788 – December 22, 1790
Michele Di Pietro (February 21, 1794 – August 9, 1802)
Jean-Louis Taberd MEP Vicar Apostolic of Cochin (Vietnam) September 18, 1827 – July 31, 1840
[13]
[14]
Dominique Lefebvre (Vicar Apostolic of Western Cochin) (Vietnam) December 10, 1839 – April 30, 1865.
Tomás Badía January 19, 1842 – September 10, 1844
Stanislas-Gabriel-Henri Baudry Apostolic Vicar of Ningyüan (Republic of China) March 18, 1927 – April 11, 1946.
Jean-Baptiste Urrutia MEP Apostolic Vicar of Hue (Vietnam) February 21, 1948 – November 24, 1960.
Philip Francis Pocock (February 18, 1961 – March 30, 1971)
[15]
References
^
Hierocles .
Synecdemus . Vol. p. 675.
^ Rogers, Clifford (June 2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology , Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 42.
^ W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (2010)
p395 .
^ W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
p18 .
^ W. M.
Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (Cambridge University Press, 2010)31.
^
Hierocles's "
Synecdemus ".
^ Priscus
Embassi to Attila .
^
Michel Le Quien , Oriens christian , I, 1085.
^ W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (2010) p429.
^
Isauropolis at GCatholic.org.
^ Annuario pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 p819.)
^ C.H. Turner,
ECCLESIAE OCCIDENTALIS MONUMENTA IURIS ANTIQUISSIMA (Oxford, 1899–1939).
^
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , Volume 11, Part 2 .
^ The late bishop of Isauropolis,
Sydney Gazette Tuesday 23 March 1841 p3.
^ David M. Cheney,
Isauroplis at catholic-hierarchy.org. (2016).