Basilinopolis

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Basilinopolis is a Catholic titular see. The original see, in Asia Minor, was a small village in Bithynia Prima, which then obtained the rank of a city under, or perhaps shortly before, Julian the Apostate. [1]

Its exact site is not known. According to W. M. Ramsay [2] it was probably situated in present-day Turkey, on the western side of the Lake of Nicaea (Isnik-Ghueul), near Bazar-Keui, between Kios (now Gemlik) and Nicaea (Isnik).

[edit] Bishops

The first known bishop, Alexander, was consecrated by John Chrysostom about 400. Other bishops are

  • Gerontius (451),
  • Cyriacus (518),
  • Sisinnius (680),
  • Georgius (787),
  • and Anthimus in 878.[3]

At the Council of Chalcedon (451) the see had been the object of a sharp contest between the metropolitans of Nicomedia and Nicaea about jurisdiction. Basilinopolis was finally made by the council a suffragan of Nicomedia[4]; and it remained so until about 1170 under Manuel Comnenus[5].

The see does not figure in a Notitia episcopatuum of the fifteenth century, after the Osmanli conquest.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Mansi, VII, 305.
  2. ^ Hist. Geogr. of Asia Minor, 179.
  3. ^ Lequien, Oriens Christianus, I, 623-625.
  4. ^ Mansi, ibid., 301-314.
  5. ^ Hierocles, Synecdemos, ed. Parthey, 169.

[edit] External link

This article incorporates text from the entry Basinopolis in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.