Titular see
Basilinopolis orBasilinoupolis (Greek: Βασιλινούπολις) was a town inBithynia Prima (civilDiocese of Pontus ), which obtained the rank of a city under, or perhaps shortly before,Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate , whose mother wasBasilina .[ 1]
Its exact site is not known.W. M. Ramsay , placed it on the western side of theLake of Nicaea , near Pazarköy, betweenKios (nowGemlik ) andNicaea (Iznik ).[ 2] Yalakdere inKocaeli Province .[ 3] [ 4]
It was asuffragan of theMetropolis of Nicomedia , in the sway of thePatriarchate of Constantinople .
At theCouncil of Chalcedon (451), the Metropolitans of Nicomedia and Nicaea were in sharp dispute about jurisdiction over the see of Basilinopolis. The council decided to assign it as a suffragan of Nicomedia.[ 5] Byzantine emperor Manuel Comnenus .[ 6] Notitia episcopatuum Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople after the 15th century, probably indicating that the city was destroyed in theOsmanli conquest.[ 7]
Historically documented bishops were:
Catholic titular see [ edit ] The diocese was nominally restored in no later than the 17th century as Latintitular bishopric ofBasilinopolis (Latin; adjectiveBasilinopolitanus ) orBasilinopoli (Curiate Italian ).[ 14]
It is vacant since 1973, having had the following incumbents, all of episcopal rank :
Luo Wenzao (羅文藻), O.P. (1674.01.03 – 1690.04.10)Edme Bélot,M.E.P. (1696.10.20 – 1717.01.02) Karl Friedrich von Wendt (1784.06.25 – 1825.01.21) John Joseph Hughes (later Archbishop) (1837.08.08 – 1842.12.20) François Baudichon (1844.08.14 – 1882.06.11) François-Eugène Lions (李萬美), M.E.P. (1871.12.22 – 1893.04.24) Karl Ernst Schrod (1894.04.17 – 1914.04.10) Pedro Pablo Drinot y Piérola,SS.CC. (1920.10.21 – 1935.09.11) Alexandre Poncet ,S.M. (1935.11.11 – 1973.09.18)Notes and references [ edit ] ^ Mansi , VII, 305.^ Hist. Geogr. of Asia Minor, 179. ^ Richard Talbert , ed. (2000).Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9 ^ Lund University .Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ^ Mansi, ibid., 301-314. ^ Hierocles ,Synecdemos ^ "Basilinopolis" inCatholic Encyclopedia ^ Mansi,Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio , vol. VI, coll. 760 e 949. ^ Mansi, op. cit., t. VIII, col. 1050. ^ https://www.degruyter.com/view/PMBZ/PMBZ17925 'Sisinnios', inProsopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit , Berlin-Boston (2013), #6715.^ Mansi, op. cit., t. XIII, col. 145 e 389. ^ Mansi, op. cit., t. XVII-XVIII, col. 377. ^ http://www.doaks.org/resources/seals/byzantine-seals/BZS.1951.31.5.323 Michael bishop of Basilinoupolis, Online Catalogue of Byzantine Seals, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1 Sources and external links [ edit ] public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Basilinopolis ".Catholic Encyclopedia
Bibliography - ecclesiastical Pius Bonifacius Gams,Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 443 Michel Lequien,Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus , Paris 1740, vol. I, coll. 623-626 Konrad Eubel,Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi , vol. 5, p. 115; vol. 6, p. 117 Raymond Janin, lemma 'Basilinopolis' inDictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. VI, 1932, coll. 1236-1237
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Basilinopolis".Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.