Germanicopolis (Bithynia)

Germanicopolis

Ancient Greek: Γερμανικόπολις
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Location	Turkey
Region	Bursa Province
Coordinates	40°10′N 28°53′E / 40.167°N 28.883°E / 40.167; 28.883

Germanicopolis (Greek: Γερμανικόπολις) was an ancient town in Bithynia, also known as Caesarea in Bythinia (not to be confused with Caesarea Germanica, as such a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.

History

It was located on the

v. 40. Modern scholars locate the town at the village of Tahtalı

The city was taken by the Ottoman Empire in 1326 and the new Ottoman capital city was built at nearby Bursa (the Ancient Prusa).

Ecclesiastical history

In

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The names of a number of bishops are historically documented:^[2]

• Phileas, mentioned in the martyr vita of Saint Tirsus and companions under Roman emperor Diocletian.
• Rufus, attending the First Council of Nicaea
• Paul(us), partook in the minor Council of Constantinople of 518
• Johannes, attended the
  Patriarch Mennas of Constantinople
  in 536
• Theodosius quarrelled with Maximus the Confessor
• Theodorus, partook in the Third Council of Constantinople
• Constantinus, attending the Second Council of Nicaea
• Theophilus, partook in the Council of Constantinople of 879-880 which rehabilitated Photius as Patriarch of Constantinople

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin

of Cesarea in Bithynia (Latin) / Cesarea di Bitinia (Curiate Italian) / Cæsarien(sis) in Bithynia (Latin adjective).

It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

• Anthony Jeremiah Pesce,
  Dodoma
  (Tanzania) (1953.03.25 – death 1971.12.20)
• Giovanni Sismondo (1954.09.30 – 1955.02.21) (Italian), on emeritate : previously Bishop of
  Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis
  (1955.02.21 – death 1957.12.07)
• Secondo Chiocca (1955.04.15 – death 1982.01.05) first as Auxiliary Bishop of
  Archdiocese of Genova (Genua, Italy) (1955.04.15 – retired 1981.05.09), then as emeritate; previously Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Foligno
  (Italy) (1947.01.18 – resigned 1955.04.15).

References

Sources and external links

• GCatholic - (former and) titular bishopric
• ISBN 0-691-03169-X
  ), Map 52 & text.
• Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 443
• OCLC 955922585
  .
• Raymond Janin, lemma 'Césarée de Bithynie', in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, col. 199