Verinopolis

Verinopolis was a city in the late Roman province of Galatia Prima. Its ruins are near present-day Köhne in Turkey.

History

The city was named in honour of Verina, mother-in-law of the Emperor Zeno. Ramsay (Asia Minor [London, 1890], 247) and Anderson (Studia Pontica [Brussels, 1903], 25) say that Verinopolis is the Byzantine name of Evagina, a station described by the Tabula Peutingeriana (X, I) and by Ptolemy (V, iv, 7) under the altered name of Phubagina.[1]

Bishopric

Verinopolis became the seat of a Christian bishop, a suffragan of Ancyra, the capital and metropolitan see of the province.

Le Quien mentions three bishops:[2]

The diocese was named in the Ecthesis of Pseudo-Epiphanius in 640; again, under the name of a nearby location, Stauros, in the Notitiae Episcopatuum of Leo the Philosopher; and again in the Notitiae of Constantine Porphyrogenitus in about 940.[1]

Verinopolis is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.|[3] In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was listed under the mistaken name of Uranopolis, not to be confused with the city of Uranopolis in Macedonia.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Siméon Vailhé, "Uranopolis" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1912)
  2. Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Parigi 1740, Tomo I, coll. 481-482
  3. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 1006