Diocese of Laodicensis in Phrygia

Remains of Laodicensis in Phrygia

The Diocese of Laodicensis in Phrygia, is an important Titular Christian Diocese, centered on the biblical city of Laodicea on the Lycus in modern Turkey.

The Church at Laodicea was a centre of Christianity from a very early point. The New Testament indicates a Christian presence in Laodicea as early as the AD 50s. The church is mentioned extensively in the epistle to the Colossians,[1][2] and the First Epistle to Timothy may have been written here.[3] Further, the church was one of the Seven churches of Asia.[4] A bishop was appointed in Apostolic Times, with numerous suffragean bishop attached.

Known Bishops

Roman Empire Bishops

Byzantine Era Bishops

There are 14 named Bishops after Cecropius in the Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae.[14]

Bishops of the Crusader era

Modern Catholic Bishops=

suffragan diocese

References

  1. Colossians 2:1
  2. Colossians 4:12-13;15-16
  3. Sophrone Pétridès, "Laodicea" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910).
  4. Revelation 1:11; 3:14-22.
  5. Philemon 1:2 & Colossians 4:17.
  6. Colossians4:15.
  7. Apostolic Constitutions, 7:46.
  8. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur ecclesiae, patriarchae caeterique praesules totius orientis (Imprimerie Royale (París) ex Typographia Regia, 1740) p793.
  9. 3 John 9.
  10. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur ecclesiae, patriarchae caeterique praesules totius orientis ( Imprimerie Royale (París) ex Typographia Regia, 1740) p794
  11. died in the [List of Christians martyred during the reign of Diocletian|Diocletian persecution]].
  12. Huttner, 2013 p280.
  13. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur ecclesiae, patriarchae caeterique praesules totius orientis (Imprimerie Royale (París) ex Typographia Regia, 1740) p794.
  14. Ernst Gerland; Corpus Notitiarum Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Orientalis Graecae. Vol. I, Listes Conciliaires. Établies par E. Gerland, revues et complétées par V. Laurent: Part II. (Kadi Keui: Socii Assumptionistae Chalcedonenses, 1936). The Journal of Hellenic Studies / Volume 56 / Issue 02 / January 1936, pp 272-273.
  15. Ulrich Huttner, Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley (BRILL, 2013) p291.
  16. Hans-Jürgen Schlütter, Discoveries in Asia Minor(Georg Olms Verlag)page 187.
  17. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur ecclesiae, patriarchae caeterique praesules totius orientis ( Imprimerie Royale (París) ex Typographia Regia, 1740) p795.
  18. Apollinaris is not listed in the Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae.
  19. Paul is mnot listed in the Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae document.
  20. The acts of the councils and the decretals of the letter, and the constitutions of the highest pontiffs, that from the year 1609, the year of 1714. (ex Typographia Regia, 1715) p25
  21. Hans-Jürgen Schlütter, Discoveries in Asia Minor(Georg Olms Verlag,1975)page 187.
  22. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur ecclesiae, patriarchae caeterique praesules totius orientis (Imprimerie Royale (París) ex Typographia Regia, 1740) p796.
  23. Huttner, p275.
  24. Photius 77.130.
  25. Photius, Ex Nicephoro Callisto Lib 14.39.
  26. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus: in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur ecclesiae, patriarchae caeterique praesules totius orientis ( Imprimerie Royale (París) ex Typographia Regia, 1740) p798
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