Basilinopolis

Basilinopolis was a small village in Bithynia Prima, which obtained the rank of a city under, or perhaps shortly before, Julian the Apostate, whose mother was Basilina.[1]

Its exact site is not known. As reported in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, W. M. Ramsay,[2] said it was probably situated on the western side of the Lake of Nicaea (Isnik-Ghueul), near Bazar-Keui, between Kios (now Gemlik) and Nicaea (Isnik). The 2013 Annuario Pontificio places it at Pazarköy.[3]

Bishops

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

At the Council of Chalcedon (451) the metropolitans of Nicomedia and Nicaea were in sharp dispute about jurisdiction over the see of Basilinopolis. The council decided to assign it as a suffragan of Nicomedia.[7] It was still reckoned as such in 1170 under Manuel Comnenus.[8] The see does not figure in a Notitia episcopatuum of the 15th century, probably indicating that the city was destroyed in the Osmanli conquest.[9]

No longer a residential bishopric, Basilinopolis is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[10]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Mansi, VII, 305.
  2. ↑ Hist. Geogr. of Asia Minor, 179.
  3. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 847
  4. ↑ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 623-626
  5. ↑ Raymond Janin, v. Basilinopolis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VI, 1932, coll. 1236-1237
  6. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 443
  7. ↑ Mansi, ibid., 301-314.
  8. ↑ Hierocles, Synecdemos, ed. Parthey, 169.
  9. ↑ "Basilinopolis" in Catholic Encyclopedia
  10. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 847

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Basilinopolis". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

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