Plotinopolis
Plotinopolis (
Didymoteichon
.
History
In the early 2nd century, the
Hebrus River, between two surrounding hills, near modern Turkish Uzunköprü and much older Greek Didymoteicho (Demotika), and named it Plotinopolis, after his wife Pompeia Plotina. A solid gold bust of Emperor Septimius Severus found on the site of Plotinopolis in 1965 is now in the museum at Komotini
.
The city would later be one of the most important towns in Thrace, having its own assembly, part of the late
suffragan of the Metropolis of Adrianople
).
The first bishop of the city, Hierophilus, is mentioned in the 430s.
The name "Plotinopolis" survived in the ecclesiastical registers until the 9th century, before there too it was replaced by Didymoteichon.[1]
Catholic titular diocese
The diocese of Plotinopolis was established 1933 as a Latin Catholic
Ivano-Frankivsk of the Ukrainians.[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 3-7001-1898-8.
- ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- ^ "Titular Episcopal See of Plotinopolis". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.