Magydus

Magydus (in Greek Μάγυδος, Magydos) was an ancient settlement and bishopric on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Asia Minor (Asian Turkey), which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its site was probably at modern Lara (Antalya province), where there are ruins of a small artificial harbour.[1][2]

History

Magydus was a small town with no notable history, on the coast between Attaleia and Perga, mentioned occasionally by geographers of the Roman and Late Antiquity periods,and on numerous coins of the imperial era.[1]

It was situated in the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, and its bishopric therefore appears as a suffragan of the archbishopric of Perga, the metropolitan see of that province, [3]in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, as attested by the Notitiae episcopatuum of the Byzantine empire until the 12th or 13th century [4].

Five of its bishops are historically documented [1]:

Titular see

It was nominaly restored no later then the late 18th century as Latin Titular bishopric of Magyddus (Latin until 1925, then renamed Magydus) / Magido (Curiate Italian) / Magyden(sis) (Latin adjective).

It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

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See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sophrone Pétridès, "Magydus" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910
  2. ↑ Pleiades Beta Portal: Magydos
  3. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 921
  4. ↑ Jean Darrouzès, Notitiae episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae. Texte critique, introduction et notes, Paris1981
  5. ↑ Jean Darrouzès, Listes épiscopales du concile de Nicée (787), in Revue des études byzantines, 33 (1975), p. 51.
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