Bageis (Ancient Greek:Βάγεις),Bagis (Βάγις), orBage (Βάγη) was an ancient Greek city in the province ofLydia inAsia Minor (modern dayTurkey).
The name of the city appears in the formBageis (in the genitive plural case of the name of its inhabitants, ΒΑΓΝΩΝ or ΒΑΓΗΝΩΝ) on its coins, butBagis is the form given in theSynecdemos ofHierocles, andBage in laterNotitiae Episcopatuum.[1][2] Some of its coins add the additional name of KAISAREΩN apparently denoting the additional city name of Caesarea.[3]
Inscriptions uncovered by Keppel place the ancient town nearSirghe on the left (south) side of theHermos River.[1][2] Modern scholars pinpoint a site atGüre.[4][5]
The episcopalsee of Bagis, being in theRoman province ofLydia was asuffragan ofSardis, the capital of the province.
The acts of theFirst Council of Nicaea (325) mention a Pollio as bishop of Baris in that province. Since there is no evidence of abishopric of that name, Janin (1931),[1] followingAdolf von Harnack,[6] consider "Baris" to be an error for "Bagis", while Pétrirdès (1907), who citesHeinrich Gelzer andC. H. Turner, does not accept that correction.[2] Other known bishops of Bagis are Chrysapius or Chrysanthus, who was at theRobber Council of Ephesus in 449, Leonides, who was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of Lydia sent in 459 toByzantine EmperorLeo I the Thracian with regard to the murder ofProterius of Alexandria, and Basilius and Clemens, who were at theCouncil of Constantinople (879),[7] presumably one of them ordained byPatriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, the other byPhotius.[1][2]
Bagis must have disappeared as a residential see during theTurkish-Byzantine wars, perhaps in the 12th century, although it continued to be listed inNotitiae Episcopatuum.[1]
No longer a residential bishopric, Bagis is today listed by theCatholic Church as atitular see.[8] a list of titular bishops includes:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Bage".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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