Basilinopolis
Basilinopolis or Basilinoupolis (Greek: Βασιλινούπολις) was a town in
Its exact site is not known.
Bishopric
It was a
Patriarchate of Constantinople
.
At the
Manuel Comnenus.[6]
The see does not figure in a Osmanli conquest.[7]
Historically documented bishops were:
- Alexander, first known bishop, was consecrated by John Chrysostom about 400.
- Gerontius (451) partook in the synod of Constantinople in 448 which condemned archimandrite Eutyches and the council of Chalcedon in 451.[8]
- Cyriacus (518) signed the letter after the synod of Constantinople in 518.[9]
- Sisinnius (680) attended the council in Trullo in 692.[10]
- Georgius (787) was at the Council of Nicaea in 787.[11]
- Anthimus (878) partook in the Council of Constantinople which rehabilitated the Patriarch Photius of Constantinople in 879-880.[12]
- archaeological finds mention bishop Michael, known from an 11th-century episcopal seal.[13]
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.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Mansi, ibid., 301-314.
- 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
- 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