Synnada

Coordinates: 38°32′N 30°33′E / 38.533°N 30.550°E / 38.533; 30.550
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Not to be confused with Sinnada.
Synnada
1st/2nd century AD Roman statue of Dionysus from Synnada
Synnada is located in Turkey
Synnada
Shown within Turkey
Coordinates38°32′N 30°33′E / 38.533°N 30.550°E / 38.533; 30.550

Synnada (

Asia Minor. Its site is now occupied by the modern Turkish town of Şuhut, in Afyonkarahisar Province.[1]

Situation

Synnada was situated in the south-eastern part of eastern Phrygia, or Parorea, thus named because it extended to the foot of the mountains of Pisidia, at the extremity of a plain about 60 stadia in length, and covered with opium plantations.

Early history

Synnada is said to have been founded by

vilayet of Broussa
.

Ecclesiastical history

Agapitus the Confessor

Christianity was introduced at an early date into Synnada. The

Eusebius of Caesarea speaks of its pious bishop Atticus who entrusted to the layman Theodore the duty of instructing the Christians.[9]

About 230-235 a council on the rebaptizing of heretics was held there.[10] St. Agapitus, mentioned in the Roman Martyrology on 24 March as Bishop of Synnada, belonged to Synaus.

For a list of other bishops see

Le Quien
, Oriens christianus, I, 827. Mention must be made of:

  • Procopius (321); Cyriacus, friend of
    St. John Chrysostom
  • Theodosius and his competitor Agapetus, at first a
    Macedonian heretic
  • Severus (431) Attended Council of Ephesus
  • Marinianus (448-51)
  • Theogenes (536)
  • Severus (553)
  • Emperor Maurice
    , honoured by the Greek Church on 13 May
  • Cosmas, 680
  • John, adversary of the
    Patriarch St. Germanus
  • St. Michael, honoured by the Latin and Greek churches 23 May, died 23 May, 826, in exile for his zeal in defending the worship of images
  • Peter under Patriarch Photius
  • John under Photius
  • Pantaleon under
    Leo the Wise
  • Leo under Basil II
  • Nicetas in 1082
  • Georgios at the Council of St. Sophia, about 1450, if one can believe the apocryphal Acts of this council, which perhaps never occurred.

The last Bishop of Synnada spoken of in the documents, without mentioning his name, probably lived under

John Cantacuzenus
(see "Cantacuz. Hist.", III, 73) and probably never lived at Synnada on account of the Turkish conquest.

Jew of Synnada, lived in the 10th century; he became a monk
, and is honoured by the Greek Church 26 December.

In 1385 the see was committed for the Greek Church to the

traditionalist Catholic founding the Society of St. Pius X to preserve the Latin Mass. Since the Second Vatican Council no new appointments have been made to this eastern titular see.[11]

Sources

  1. ISBN 0-691-03169-X
    ), Map 62 & notes.
  2. ^ Livy xxxviii. 15, xlv. 34.
  3. ^ Strab. xii.
  4. ^ Plin. H.N., v. 29
  5. ^ Cic. ad Att. v. 20; comp. ad Fam. iii. 8. xv. 4
  6. ^ Strab. l. c.; Plin. xxxv. 1; Stat. Silv. i. 5. 36; Comp. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v.; Ptolemy v. 2. § 24; Martial, ix. 76; Symmach. ii. 246.
  7. ^ Acta Sanctorum, VI September, 9 sq.
  8. ^ Mendel, "Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique", XXXIII (1909), 342 sq.
  9. ^ Church History, VI, 19.
  10. ^ Eusebius, Church History, VII, 7.
  11. ^ Synnada in Phrygia at catholic-hierarchy.org

References

  • Louis Robert, Lettres d'un évêque de Synnada (Paris, 1962).
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