Ancient city in Asia Minor
Area around Abonoteichos Abonoteichos (Ancient Greek :Ἀβώνου τεῖχος ,romanized : Abṓnou teîchos demonym :Αβωνοτειχίτης Abōnoteichítēs Ionopolis (Ιωνόπολις Ionópolis Turkish :İnebolu Asia Minor , on the site of modernİnebolu (in Asian Turkey), and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Abonoteichos was a town on the coast ofPaphlagonia , memorable as the birthplace of the infamous fortunetellerAlexander Abonoteichites , founder of the cult ofGlycon , of whomLucian left an amusing account in the treatise bearing his name.[ 1] Roman emperor (probablyAntoninus Pius ) that the name of his native place should be changed from Abonoteichos toIonopolis ; and whether the emperor granted the request or not, we know that the town was called Ionopolis in later times.[ 2]
Not only does this name occur inMarcian of Heraclea [ 3] Hierocles ,[ 4] Lucius Verus we find the legend Ionopoliton (ΙΩΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΑΒΩΝΟΤΕΙΧΙΤΩΝ İnebolu is evidently a corruption of Ionopolis.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
It was the site of a 2nd-century AD temple ofApollo .[ 9]
Ecclesiastical history of Ionopolis [ edit ] It was important enough in theRoman province ofPaphlagonia to become asuffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan of its capitalGangra ,[ 10] Michel LeQuien [ 11] [ 12] Notitiae episcopatuum .”[ 13]
Catholic titular see [ edit ] Thediocese was nominally revived as aLatin Catholic titular bishopric under the name Ionopolis, which was spelledJonopolis in theRoman Curia (besides ItalianGionopoli ) from 1929 to 1971.
It has been vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) and intermediary (archiepiscopal) ranks :
Titular Bishop Wilhelm Hermann Ignaz Ferdinand von Wolf-Metternich zu Gracht (1720.09.16 – 1722.10.28)[ 23] [ 24] Titular Bishop Joannes Karski (1771.07.29 – 1785)[ 25] [ 26] Titular BishopBishop-elect John Murphy (1815.02.21 – 1815.02.21) Titular Bishop Bishop-elect Ferdinand Corbi (1833.09.30 – ?) Titular Bishop Wincenty Lipski (1856.09.18 – 1875.12.13)[ 27] [ 28] Titular Archbishop James Gibbons (1877.05.29 – 1877.10.03), previously Titular Bishop ofAdramyttium (1868.03.03 – 1872.07.30) &Apostolic Vicar ofNorth Carolina (USA) (1868.03.03 – 1877.05.20), also Bishop ofRichmond (USA) (1872.07.30 – 1877.05.29); laterCoadjutor Archbishop ofBaltimore (USA) (1877.05.29 – 1877.10.03), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore (1877.10.03 – 1921.03.24),Cardinal-Priest ofS. Maria in Trastevere (1887.03.17 – 1921.03.24), becomingProtopriest of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1920.12.07 – 1921.03.24) Titular Archbishop Francis Xavier Leray (1879.09.30 – 1883.12.28) Titular Bishop Giacomo Daddi (1884.03.24 – 1897?) Titular Bishop Andrea Cassato (1898.03.24 – 1913.05.01) Titular Bishop Henri Doulcet,Passionists (C.P.) (1913.06.03 – 1914.03.17); previously Bishop ofNikopol (Bulgaria) (1895.01.07 – 1913.03.31); later Titular Archbishop ofDioclea (1914.03.17 – 1916.07.27) Titular Bishop Joseph John Fox (1914.11.07 – 1915.03.14) Titular Bishop Nicolás Gonzalez Pérez,Claretians (C.M.F.) (1918.08.24 – 1935.03.23) Titular Bishop Eugène-Louis-Marie Le Fer de la Motte (1935.07.08 – 1936.07.20) Titular Bishop Johann Baptist Dietz (1936.07.25 – 1939.04.10),Coadjutor Bishop ofFulda (Germany) (1936.07.25 – 1939.04.10), succeeding as Bishop of Fulda (1939.04.10 – 1958.10.24), later Titular Archbishop ofCotrada (1958.10.24 – 1959.12.10) Titular Bishop Maurice-Auguste-Eugène Foin (1939.06.10 – 1948.07.10) Titular Bishop Hubert Joseph Paulissen,Society of African Missions (S.M.A.) (1951.11.15 – 1966.08.12) ^ Smith, William (1857),"Abonoteichos" , in Smith, William (ed.),Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography ^ Lucian ,Alex § 58^ Marcian of Heraclea ,Peripl. p. 72^ Synecdemus , p. 696^ Strabo , p. 545^ Arrian ,Periplus Ponti Euxini ^ Ptol. v. 4 § 2 ^ Stephanus of Byzantium ,s. v. Ἀβώνου τείχος ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913)."Ionopolis" Catholic Encyclopedia ^ Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin , Historical and geographical description of Asia Minor, including ancient times, the Middle Ages and modern times (A. Bertrand, 1845) p436^ Le Quien, Michel (1740).Oriens Christianus, in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus: quo exhibentur ecclesiæ, patriarchæ, cæterique præsules totius Orientis. Tomus primus: tres magnas complectens diœceses Ponti, Asiæ & Thraciæ, Patriarchatui Constantinopolitano subjectas OCLC 955922585 .^ CUINET, La Turquie d'Asie, IV (Paris, 1894), p466-69 .^ The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908 .^ Roderic Mullen, The expansion of Christianity (Brill, 2004) p. 123. ^ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University press, 2005)p88 . ^ Eduard Schwartz, Collectio Novariensis de re Eutychis (Walter de Gruyter, 1 July 1962)p207 . ^ N. bishop of Ionopolis (tenth century) .^ Jean-Claude Cheynet, Studies in Byzantine Sigillography, Volume 8 (Walter de Gruyter, 2003)p58 . ^ Niketas bishop of Ionopolis (and chartoularios) of the Great Orphanotropheion (eleventh century). ^ Elizabeth Jeffreys, John F. Haldon, Robin Cormack, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford University Press, 2008)p154 . ^ John bishop of Ionopolis (eleventh century) .^ McGeer, Eric; Nesbitt, John;Oikonomides, Nicolas , eds. (2001).Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 4: The East 49– 50.ISBN 0-88402-282-X ^ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 229 ^ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1721, Number 6. ^ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 244, and Page 454. ^ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1772, Number 34. ^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 178, Number 14.787 ^ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 323.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854). "Aboni-Teichos".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. p. 5.
