Maximopolis

Maximopolis is a suppressed Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Arabia, a suffragan of Bostra.

The true name of the city is Maximianopolis, and so it appears in the Notitia episcopatuum of the Patriarch Anastasius in the sixth century.^[1] Pursuant to a decree of the Propaganda (1885), the title is now suppressed; Torquato Amellini having confounded this town with Maximianopolis in Palestina Secunda.^[2]

The name which preceded that of Maximianopolis is not known, and we are equally ignorant of its actual identification, though many authorities place it at Sheikh-Miskin, a locality in the Hauran, famous for the extent and beauty of its ruins, where an inscription has been found bearing the name of Bishop Thoma.^[3]

Bishops

Its last titular was consecrated in 1876. Two ancient bishops of this see are known:

• Severus, a signatory of the Council of Chalcedon in 451;^[4]
• Peter, known by an inscription.^[5]

Notes

1. ^ Vailhé (1911) Cites: "Echos d'Orient", X, Paris, 1907, 145.
2. ^ Vailhé (1911) Cites: "Catalogo dei vescovati titolari", Rome, 1884, appendix 8.
3. ^ Vailhé (1911) Cites: "Bulletin de corresp. hellenique," Paris, 1897, 52.
4. ^ Vailhé (1911) Cites: Mansi, "Coll. Conc.", VII, 168.
5. ^ Vailhé (1911) Cites: Waddington, "Inscriptions grecques et latines de Grece et l'Asie-Mineure", no. 2361.

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Vailhé,, Siméon (1911). "Maximopolis". In Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.