Remesiana

43°13′4.8″N 22°18′26.78″E / 43.218000°N 22.3074389°E / 43.218000; 22.3074389

Remesiana (

Byzantine Greek: Ρεμεσιανισία) was an ancient Roman city and former bishopric, which remains an Eastern Orthodox and also a Latin Catholic titular see, located around and under the modern city of Bela Palanka in Serbia

.

Remesiana was declared an

Republic of Serbia

.

History

Remesiana was built after the Roman conquest of

Serdica in Dacia Mediterranea

.

Districts

Justinian

had the following strongholds in the district of Remesiana : Brittura, Subaras, Lamponiana, Stronges, Dalmatas, Primiana, Phrerraria, Topera, Tomes, Cuas, Tzertzenutzas, Stens,

Aeadaba, Destreba, Pretzouries, Cumudeba, Deurias, Lutzolo, Rhepordenes, Spelonca, Scumbro, Briparo, Tulcoburgo, Longiana, Lupophantana, Dardapara

, Burdomina, Grinciapana, Graecus and Drasimarca.

Localities

Briparo

Site of the Assembly

Austrian historian

Moesia Superior sat at Remesiana, based upon the fact that some inscriptions were discovered, "inaugurated between 202 and 209 by Ulpiana in honour of Septimius Severus and Julia Augusta,"^[1] is not correct.

One can see in a recently discovered inscription of identical content [2] that these inscriptions were inaugurated in 202. However, that year Septimius Severus returned from the east to Rome and probably passed through Remesiana and on that occasion the inscriptions were inaugurated.

Ecclesiastical History

Remesiana was import enough in the Late

Patriarchate of Constantinople

.

It was suppressed circa 500 AD.

Only two residential Suffragan Bishops of Remesiana are historically documented :

Saint
De Viris Illustribus, patron saint of Romania
, canonized by both Catholic and Orthodox churches

Diogenianus, participant at the Second Council of Ephesus in 449.

Titular see

Remesiana is an Eastern Orthodox titular see, within the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church.^[3]

Remesiana is also a

titular bishopric

of Remesiana (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Remesianen(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

Joseph-Marie Leray,
Gilbert Islands (Kiribati
) (1897.07.27 – 1927) and emeritate

Federico Melendro Gutiérrez (梅耿光),
Anqing 安慶 (China) (1930.02.14 – 1946.04.11); later promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of Anqing
安慶 (1946.04.11 – death 1978.10.25)

Francisco Javier Ochoa Ullate (陳明理),
Guide 歸德 (1937.05.18 – 1946.04.11) and Titular Bishop of Chusira (1937.05.18 – 1946.04.11), again (see) promoted first Bishop of Shangqiu
商邱 (China) (1946.04.11 – retired 1947.12.11)

Jacques Louis Marie Joseph Fihey (1977.05.31 – 1989.04.22) as
Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Marseille (France) (1977.05.31 – 1983.02.12); later Bishop of the Military Vicariate of the French Armed Forces (1983.02.12 – 1986.07.21), restyled Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the French Armed Forces (1986.07.21 – 1989.04.22), finally Bishop of Coutances
(France) (1989.04.22 – retired 2006.10.02), died 2017

Sylvester Donovan Ryan (1990.02.17 – 1992.01.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of

Monterey

(USA) (1992.01.28 – retired 2006.12.19)

Nicola De Angelis, Sons of the Immaculate Conception (C.F.I.C.) (born Italy) (1992.04.27 – 2002.12.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) (1992.04.27 – 2002.12.28); later Bishop of Peterborough (Canada) (2002.12.28 – retired 2014.04.08)
Francis Ronald Reiss (2003.07.07 – ...) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Detroit (USA) (2003.07.07 – 2015.11.11) and on emeritate.

References

^ CIL III 1685, 1686 and 1688 = 8257
^ Vulich, Ancient Monuments of our country, Spomenik XCVIII, 1941–1948, 3, No. 4
^ "Serbian Orthodox Church (2011): Biography of Bishop Andrej of Remesiana". Archived from the original on 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
^ Remesiana Catholic Encyclopedia

Sources and external links

GCatholic - former & titular bishopric

Bibliography

Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 417
Daniele Farlati-Jacopo Coleti, Illyricum Sacrum, vol. VIII, Venice 1817, pp. 77–84
Zeiller, Jacques (1918). Les origines chrétiennes dans les provinces danubiennes de l'Empire romain. Paris: E. De Boccard.
Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, vol. II, coll. 305-306

[1] CIL III 1685, 1686 and 1688 = 8257

[2] Vulich, Ancient Monuments of our country, Spomenik XCVIII, 1941–1948, 3, No. 4

[3] "Serbian Orthodox Church (2011): Biography of Bishop Andrej of Remesiana". Archived from the original on 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2018-07-19.

[4] Remesiana Catholic Encyclopedia

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