Traianopolis (Phrygia)
Traianopolis, Trajanopolis, Tranopolis, or Tranupolis (
Trajanopolis has been variously identified; Radet[1] locates it at Çarikköy, about three miles from Giaurören towards the south-east, on the road from Uşak to Suzusköy, a village abounding in sculptures, marbles and fountains, where the name of the city may be read on the inscriptions. However, Ramsay[2] continues to identify Trajanopolis with Giaurören. Modern scholars place it near Ortaköy.[3][4]
History
The only Ancient geographer who speaks of Trajanopolis is
It was founded about 109 by the Grimenothyritae, who obtained permission from Roman emperor Hadrian to give the place the name of his predecessor. It had its own coins. Hierocles calls it Tranopolis.[6]
Ecclesiastical history
In the
- John, present at a Patriarch Gennadius I
- John, at the Patriarch Menasin 536
- Asignius, at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553
- Tiberius, at the Council in Trulloin 692
- Philip, at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787
- Eustathius, at the Council of Constantinople(879-880).
- Another, doubtless more ancient than the preceding, Demetrius, is known from one inscription.[8]
Titular see
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The bishopric of Trajanopolis is included in the
It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank, with a singular archiepiscopal exception :
- Jerónimo Zolivera (1672.02.22 – 1683.01.11)
- Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol (1859.04.15 – 1865.02.17)
- Giulio Marsili, Friars Minor(O.F.M.) (1873.11.11 – 1873.11.11)
- Adam Carel Claessens (1874.06.16 – 1884.01.04) as Apostolic Vicar of Batavia (Java, Indonesia) (1874.06.16 – 1893.05.23), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Siraces(1884.01.04 – 1895.07.10)
- Tomás Jenaro de Cámara y Castro, Augustinian Order(O.E.S.A.) (1883.08.09 – 1885.03.27)
- Piers Power (1886.01.29 – 1887.12.06)
- Louis-Hippolyte-Aristide Raguit (祁類思), Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (1888.03.23 – 1889.05.17)
- Titular Archbishop Enrico Giuseppe Reed da Silva (1898.03.24 – 1930.10.04), as emeritate; previously Titular Bishop of São Tomé de Meliapor(India) (1887.03.14 – 1897.09.15)
- Agostino Laera (1931.07.24 – 1942.01.17)
- Felice Agostino Addeo, Augustinians (O.S.A.) (1942.07.01 – 1957.02.07)
- Humberto Lara Mejía, Vincentians (C.M.) (1957.07.19 – 1967.05.05)
See also
- Traianopolis in Rhodope, a city and titular see in western Thrace
References
- ^ "En Phrygie", Paris, 1895
- ^ Asia Minor, 149; Cities and Bishopries of Phrygia, 595
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ v, 2, 14, 15
- ^ Synecedemus, 668, 150
- OCLC 955922585.
- ^ C. I. G., 9265
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 995
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