Tiberiopolis

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Tiberiopolis (Italian Tiberiopoli) is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Phrygia Pacatiana, and is mentioned by Ptolemy[1], Socrates of Constantinople[2] and Hierocles[3]. It struck its own coins at least from the time of Trajan.

Its exact site is unknown, but it was situated in the region of Egri Gueuz. Ancient Greek Notitiae episcopatuum mention it among the suffragans of Laodicea. In the eighth century it was attached to the metropolitan See of Hierapolis and as such appears in the Notitiae episcopatuum until the thirteenth century.

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[edit] Bishops

Le Quien[4] mentions five of its bishops known by their presence at councils:

  • Eustathius at Constantinople (536);
  • Silas at Constantinople (553);
  • Anastasius at Constantinople (692);
  • Michael at Nicaea (787);
  • Theoctistus at Constantinople (879).

[edit] References

  • Smith, Dict. of Greek and Roman geog., s.v.;
  • Ramsay, Asia Minor(London, 1890), 147, 458.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ V, 2, 25.
  2. ^ Hist. eccl., VII, 46.
  3. ^ Synecdemus, 668, 9.
  4. ^ Oriens christianus, I, 797.

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