Antiochia ad Cragum

Antiochia ad Cragum

Some ruins at Antiochia ad Cragum
Shown within Turkey
Alternate name Antiochetta, Antiocheta, Antiochia Parva, Antiocheta in Rufine
Location Antalya Province, Turkey
Region Cilicia
Coordinates 36°09′26″N 32°24′56″E / 36.15722°N 32.41556°E / 36.15722; 32.41556Coordinates: 36°09′26″N 32°24′56″E / 36.15722°N 32.41556°E / 36.15722; 32.41556
Type Settlement
History
Founded 170 BC
Cultures Hellenistic, Roman, Armenian, Byzantine, Medieval
Site notes
Excavation dates 2005-2015
Archaeologists Michael Hoff, Rhys Townsend, Ece Erdoğmuş, Birol Can
Condition In ruins
Management University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Antiochia ad Cragum (Greek: Αντιόχεια του Κράγου) also known as Antiochetta or Latin: Antiochia Parva (meaning "Little Antiochia") is an ancient Hellenistic city on Mount Cragus overlooking the Mediterranean coast, in the region of Cilicia, in Anatolia. In modern-day Turkey the site is encompassed in the village of Güneyköy, District of Gazipaşa, Antalya Province.

The city was founded by Antiochus IV Epiphanes in approximately 170 BC. It minted coins from the mid-1st century to the mid-2nd century; the last known of which were issued under Roman Emperor Valerian. The city became part of the kingdom of Lesser Armenia in the 12th century. In 1332, the Knights Hospitallers took the city, after which it was known variously as Antiochetta, Antiocheta, Antiocheta in Rufine (Papal bull of Pope John XXII), and Antiochia Parva.

Some scholars claim an identity of Antiochia ad Cragum with the city Cragus (Kragos) or, although it lies more than 100 km away, with Sidyma, which some scholars assert was the Lycian Cragus (Kragos).

Ruins of the city remain, and include fortifications, baths, chapels, Roman necropolis, and the largest Roman mosaic found in Turkey.[1]

Bishopric

Dioecesis Orientis 400 AD.

In Byzantine times, Antiochia Parva was the seat of an episcopal see of the Roman province of Isauria in the Diocese of the East. It was part of the Patriarchate of Antioch and was suffragan of the Archbishopric of Seleucia.

There are five known ancient bishops of this diocese:

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Antiochia Parva is no longer a residential bishopric. It is today listed as a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[3][4] The seat is vacant since April 11, 1964. It was held previously by:

Notes

  1. Lequien gives Bishop Theophan, episcopus Antiochiae parvae, both home to Antioch in Isauria, and namesake in Caria.[2]

References

  1. NBC News.com 09/21/13
  2. 1 2 Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 1017-1020
  3. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 438
  4. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 834
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