Trocmades orTrocmada was a city in theRoman province ofGalatia Secunda. It appears to have been on the site of the modern Turkish village ofKaymaz, about twenty-four miles east ofEskişehir,Turkey.
The city is known from ecclesiastical records; no geographer or historian mentions a city of this name.Hierocles' Synecdemus (698, 1) gives "regio Trocnades", instead ofΡηγετνοκνάδα; the 1913Catholic Encyclopedia speculates that this usage refers to theGalatian name of some tribe on the left bank of theSangarius.
Some writers have associated the name of Trocmades with the Galatian tribe of theTrocmi and even with theBiblical name of Togarmah, mentioned inGenesis 10:3,1 Chronicles 1:6, andEzekiel 27:14 and38:6.[1]
All theNotitiae episcopatuum up to the 13th century mention among thesuffragans ofPessinus the see Τροκμάδων, meaning "of Trocmades" or "of Trocmada"; the two most recent (13th century) call it Λωτίνου; perhaps it should be Πλωτίνου, meaning "of (Saint) Plotinus", venerated there.
Le Quien, who gives the name of the see as Trocmada (neuter plural), mentions the following bishops:[2]
Cyriacus, said to have assisted at theFirst Council of Nicaea (325), is not mentioned in the authentic lists of bishops present at that council.
The see of Trocmades is included in theCatholic Church's list oftitular sees.[3]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Trocmades".Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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