Camachus

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Camachus was a town in the

Kemah in eastern Turkey
.

History

The town enclosed a celebrated temple of the god Aramazd, containing a great number of literary monuments, which were destroyed by the orders of St. Gregory of Armenia. Here were deposited the treasures of the Armenian kings, as well as many of their tombs: hence the name - the word Gamakh by which it was known in Armenian signifying "corpse". The Byzantine emperors kept a strong garrison there to defend the eastern part of their empire from the attacks of the Moslems, up to the commencement of the 11th century.[1]

Bishopric

The

Patriarch Alexius of Constantinople in 1029.[2][3]

About the end of the 9th century, Camachus, until then a

suffragan of Sebaste (metropolis of Armenia I), was made a metropolitan see by Leo the Philosopher
; it had five, and at one time eight, suffragan sees.

By the 15th century the residential see had disappeared. Accordingly, it is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[4]

References

  1. ^ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Camacha"
  2. ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 435-436
  3. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 440
  4. ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 856
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