Irenopolis
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Irenopolis in Isauria is a Catholic titular see
of Isauria
, suffragan of Seleucia
.
Five of its bishops are known:
The city is mentioned by Hierocles
in the sixth century and George of Cyprus in the seventh. It figures in the Notitia Episcopatuum of Anastasius, Patriarch of Antioch in the sixth century, and in the Nova Tactica of the tenth century, as attached to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
At this period the Byzantine emperors had taken the province of Isauria from the Patriarchate of Antioch. W. M. Ramsay, following John Sterrett, identifies Irenopolis of Isauria with Irnebol, of which he does not indicate the exact situation.
Coins found bearing the name Irenopolis belong rather to a city of the same name located in Cilicia
, the ancient Neronias, some of whose bishops are also known.
Titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....
of Isauria
Isauria
Isauria , in ancient geography, is a rugged isolated district in the interior of South Asia Minor, of very different extent at different periods, but generally covering what is now the district of Bozkır and its surroundings in the Konya province of Turkey, or the core of the Taurus Mountains. In...
, suffragan of Seleucia
Seleucia
Seleucia was the first capital of the Seleucid Empire, and one of the great cities of antiquity standing in Mesopotamia, on the Tigris River.Seleucia may refer to:...
.
Five of its bishops are known:
- John (325)
- Menodorus (451)
- Paul (458)
- George (692)
- Euschemon (878).
The city is mentioned by Hierocles
Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)
Hierocles or Hierokles was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the Synecdemus or Synekdemos, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of the cities of each...
in the sixth century and George of Cyprus in the seventh. It figures in the Notitia Episcopatuum of Anastasius, Patriarch of Antioch in the sixth century, and in the Nova Tactica of the tenth century, as attached to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
At this period the Byzantine emperors had taken the province of Isauria from the Patriarchate of Antioch. W. M. Ramsay, following John Sterrett, identifies Irenopolis of Isauria with Irnebol, of which he does not indicate the exact situation.
Coins found bearing the name Irenopolis belong rather to a city of the same name located in Cilicia
Cilicia
In antiquity, Cilicia was the south coastal region of Asia Minor, south of the central Anatolian plateau. It existed as a political entity from Hittite times into the Byzantine empire...
, the ancient Neronias, some of whose bishops are also known.