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

• Archippus, of the Bible.^[5]
• Nymphas.^[6][7][8]
• Diotrephes ^[9]
• Sagaris, martyr (c. 166).^[10]
• Sagar of Laodicea c175
• Sisinnius
• Diodorus of Laodicea 303/04^[11]
• Nunechius I, Council of Nicaea (325)^[12]
• Eugenius^[13]
• Theodotus 334
• Cecropius of Nicomedia(350)

Byzantine Era Bishops

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

• Nonnus of Laodicea 343AD^[15] succeeded Cecropius
• Nymphas 300s???^[16]
• Aristonicus 381^[17]
• Apollinaris of Laodicea 390^[18]
• Paul 431^[19]
• Nunechius 449
• Messalinus of Laodicea 451^[20]
• Nunechius II 458^[21]
• John^[22]
• Kyriarcus 500s???^[23]
• Theodorus of Laodicea 553
• Tyberius
• Eustathius
• Theodorus II 870^[24]
• Sisinnius II
• Paulus
• Simeon^[25]
• Michael 1082

Bishops of the Crusader era

• Unknown bishop at Synod of Constantionple 1140^[26]
• Gerard, bishop of Laodicea 1159.
• Basilus
• Theophylactes 1450

Modern Catholic Bishops=

• Georg (Jerzy) (1446 Appointed - 1461)
• Rodrigo de San Ginés, (Appointed 21 Apr 1501 )
• Laurentius Montonis, (Appointed 22 Apr 1504)
• Franciscus Ladini Appointed 4 Sep 1517 - )
• Dominik Malachowski, (3 Apr 1527 - 15 Mar 1544)
• Giovanni Antonio Melegnano (Appointed 6 Feb 1534 )
• Erasmus de Cracovia, (14 Nov 1544 - )
• Andrzej Spot, (23 Mar 1547 - 5 Mar 1560)
• Leonardo Marini, (5 Mar 1550 - 26 Jan 1560)
• Stanisław Słomowski (Szbomowski) (14 Feb 1560 - 7 Sep 1565)
• Marcin Białobrzeski (3 Apr 1566 - 19 Jul 1577)
• Gonzalo Herrera Olivares (23 Jul 1568 - 20 Sep 1579)
• Jakub Milewski (6 Oct 1578 - 20 Nov 1586)
• Paweł Dembski (11 Mar 1587 Appointed - 28 Feb 1614 Died)
• Cristoforo Caetani (10 May 1623 - 2 Oct 1634)
• Girolamo Binago, (12 Jan 1637 - 17 Oct 1643)
• Wojciech Lipnicki (5 Feb 1646 - 4 Jun 1657)
• Girolamo Buonvisi (17 Jul 1651 - 28 May 1657)
• Giulio Spinola (14 Jan 1658 - 18 Jul 1667)
• Rodulphus Acquaviva (12 Mar 1668 - 12 May 1672)
• Albert Ernst von Wartenberg (10 Nov 1687 - 9 Oct 1715)
• Federico Caccia (2 Jan 1693 - 13 Apr 1693)
• Vincenzo Bichi (11 Dec 1702 - 31 Mar 1732)
• Giacomo Oddi (9 Jun 1732 - 5 Apr 1745)
• Girolamo Spínola † (13 Apr 1744 - 15 Dec 1760)
• Girolamo Palermo, C.R. † (5 Aug 1765 Appointed - 2 Aug 1776 Died)
• Manuel Buenaventura Figueroa Barrero (1 Oct 1782 Appointed - 3 Apr 1783 Died)
• Juan Acisclo de Vera y Delgado (20 Jul 1801 Appointed - 15 Mar 1815)
• Faustino Zucchini (19 Apr 1822 Appointed - )
• Vincento Garofoli (24 Feb 1832 Appointed - 3 Feb 1839 Died)
• Nicolaus Murad (9 Oct 1843 Appointed - 26 Dec 1862 Died)
• Raphael de Martinis, (28 Apr 1896 Appointed - 15 Feb 1900 Died)
• Diomede Panici (19 Apr 1900 Appointed - 6 Aug 1909 Died)
• Beda Giovanni Cardinale (3 Feb 1910 Appointed - 8 Nov 1910)
• Sébastien Herscher (19 Jan 1911 Appointed - 25 Aug 1931 Died)
• Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (17 Mar 1933 - 18 Dec)
• Émile André Jean-Marie Maury (8 Jul 1959 Appointed - 25 Jun 1968 Appointed, Archbishop of Reims)

suffragan diocese

• Attuda
• Aizanoi
• Themisonium
• Tiberiopolis
• Traianopolis (Phrygia)
• Synaus (titular see)
• Cidyessus
• Alia

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