Choma (Lycia)

Coordinates: 36°38′32″N 29°50′10″E / 36.64222°N 29.83616°E / 36.64222; 29.83616
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Choma (

Candyba.[2] The town can be identified with a site near today's village of Hacımusalar in the district of Elmalı.[3]

Several buildings of the ancient city have been excavated and are visible today.

Bishopric

Since it was in the

metropolitan see of Myra, the province's capital. The diocese is documented in the Notitiae Episcopatuum of the patriarchate of Constantinople until the 12th century.[4]

The names of three of its

No longer a residential bishopric, Choma is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[9] Since 1933 Coma has been counted among the bishopric holders of the Catholic Church; the title has not been assigned since September 22, 1978. Its last holder was Joseph Arthur Costello, auxiliary bishop of Newark.

References

  1. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.27.
  2. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.3.
  3. ^ George Ewart Bean, Choma (Hacimusalar) Lycia, Turkey, in: Richard Stillwell u. a. (Hrsg.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976.
  4. ^ Jean Darrouzès, Notitiae episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae. Texte critique, introduction et notes, Parigi 1981, indice p. 488, voce Choma.
  5. ^ Sylvain Destephen, Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire 3. Prosopographie du diocèse d'Asie (325-641), Paris 2008 page 809
  6. ^ Sylvain Destephen, Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire 3. Prosopographie du diocèse d'Asie (325-641), Paris 2008 page 277-278.
  7. ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 983-984
  8. ^ Raymond Janin, v. Choma, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, col. 760
  9. ), p. 873

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Choma". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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