Nyssa (Cappadocia)

Coordinates: 38°57′15″N 33°57′33″E / 38.954295°N 33.959229°E / 38.954295; 33.959229
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Not to be confused with Nysa on the Maeander or Nisa (Lycia).

Nyssa
Νύσσα
Central Anatolia
Coordinates38°57′15″N 33°57′33″E / 38.954295°N 33.959229°E / 38.954295; 33.959229

Nyssa (

Roman Catholic Church
.

Site and location

The

Ancient Greek: Στρατηγίας Μουριμηνῆς).[1]
The
Cappadocia Prima.[2]

The site of Nyssa has been identified as near the modern town of Harmandalı, Ortaköy district, Aksaray province, in south-central Turkey.[3] The archaeological site consists of two tells, named Büyükkale (big castle) and Küçükkale (little castle), located 1 and 2 km to the north of Harmandalı with the town located 1 km north[1] Another proposed location associates it with the modern city of Nevşehir, but modern scholarship has cast serious doubt on this.[1][4]

William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography placed the town at a village, not otherwise mentioned, called Nirse or Nissa and said that it was anciently in a district called Muriane, not far from the river

Halys.[5]

Ecclesiastical history

Main article: Roman Catholic Diocese of Nyssa

Nyssa was important enough in the

Caesarea in Cappadocia
(Kayseri).

St. Gregory of Nyssa.

The earliest bishop of Nyssa whose name is known is

Council of Constantinople (879). A 10th-century bishop named Germanus is known for his ecclesiastical writings.[6][7]

The Eastern Orthodox Church has continued to appoint titular bishops of Nyssa even after the town and its Christian community ceased to exist. In practice, these titular bishops held jurisdiction over Orthodox Christian communities located elsewhere. Since 2012, the title "Bishop of Nyssa" is held by the bishop of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Pochoshajew, Igor. Nyssa in Kappadokien Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, (German), p. 6. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
  2. ^ Sophrone Pétridès, "Nyssa" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1911)
  3. ^ Talbert, Richard. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, Princeton University Press, 2000, Map-by-map Directory, p. 980.
  4. ISBN 0-19-927351-0
  5. ^ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
  6. ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 391–394
  7. ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 440
  8. ^ "Bishop Gregory of Nyssa". Website of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese. Retrieved 14 June 2017.

Sources and external links

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