Stauropolis (titular See)

The Archdiocese of Stauropoli (in Latin: Archidioecesis Stauropolitana) is a suppressed and titular See of the Roman Catholic Church.[1][2]

History

The Bishopric was centered on the ancient town of Stauropolis, which is identifiable with Geyre in today's Turkey,[3] is the ancient metropolitan seat of the Roman province of Caria in the civil Diocese of Asia and the Patriarchate of Constantinople.[4][5]

In the Hellenistic-Roman era, the city had the name Aphrodisia, modified in the Christian era as Stauropoli (from the Greek, meaning: city of the cross). Subsequently, in Byzantine times, the city assumed the name of Caria, a name that still resides in the village of Geyre (Geyre), built on its ruins.[6]

Stauropoli was home to an ancient Christian community. The Roman martyrology of May 3, remember the martyrs Diodorus and Rodopiano, who were condemned to be stoned to Aphrodisias during the Diocletian persecution.[7]

At the Council of Chalcedon (451) bishops are signing the documents of confession as Aphrodisiadis Metropolitan Cariae. There are about thirty known bishops of Stauropoli in the first Christian millennium, many of them thanks to epigraphic and sigillografiche discoveries.

In notitiae episcopatuum of the pseudo-Epiphanius, composed during the reign of Emperor Heraclius I (about 640), the seat of Stauropoli is listed at the 20th place in the hierarchical order of metropolitanates under the patriarchate of Constantinople[8] and are attributed 28 dioceses suffragan.[9] In Notitia attributed to Emperor Leo VI (early tenth century) Stauropoli (o Caria) fell to 21st place among the metropolitanates of patriarchy,[10] and the suffragan dioceses have become 26.[11]

Today Stauropoli survives as an archbishopric holder; The seat is vacant since 19 June 1971.

Bishops

Ancient Era

Ruins at Stauropolis.
Ruins at Stauropolis.

Modern Era

References

  1. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 447.
  2. ↑ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, (Paris, 1740), Vol.I, coll. 899-904.
  3. ↑ La Stauropolis at www.gcatholic.org
  4. ↑ Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 5, p. 363.
  5. ↑ Vincenzo Ruggiari, A historical Addendum to the episcopal Lists of Caria, in Revue des études byzantines, 1996, Volume54, Num54, pp. 221–234 (in particolare p. 232).
  6. ↑ Siméon Vailhé, v. Stauropolis, in Catholic Encyclopedia vol. XIV, (New York, 1912).
  7. ↑ The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy (Printed at Rome in 1914). Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 125-126.
  8. ↑ Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, in: Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1901, p. 534, nº 27.
  9. ↑ Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, in: Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1901, , pp. 539-540, nnº 290-318., nº 27.
  10. ↑ Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, in: (Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1901), p. 550, nº 24.
  11. ↑ Gelzer, op. cit., p. 555, nnº 344-370.

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