Lampa (Crete)
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Lampa (in Latin also Lappa) is the name of an ancient polis, orthodox and (titular) Catholic episcopal see in Greece on Crete, suffragan of Gortyna.
[edit] History
It was probably a colony of Tarrha.
It was taken by storm and almost entirely destroyed by the Romans. The emperor Octavian Augustus restored it and in consideration of the aid rendered him in his struggle with Marcus Antonius, he bestowed on the citizens their freedom, and with it the right of coinage.
It has been identified with the modern small village of Polis.
[edit] Bishopric
The episcopal see is mentioned in the "Notitiae episcopatuum" as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
It was re-established by the Greeks about the end of the nineteenth century; the bishop resides in the monastery of Preveli.
Lequien (Oriens Christianus, II, 268) mentions from its bishops:
- Petrus, who attended the Council of Ephesus, 431;
- Deneltius, at the Council of Chalcedon, 451;
- Prosdocius, in 458;
- John, who appealed to Rome against his metropolitan Paul, and attended the Council of Constantinople, 667;
- Epiphanius at the Council of Nicaea, 786.
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
