Dioshieron
Coordinates: 38°15′00″N 28°03′32″E / 38.250°N 28.059°E
| Dioshieron | |
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| Coordinates: 38°15′N 28°03′E / 38.250°N 28.050°E | |
| Elevation | 326 m (1,070 ft) |
Dioshieron was a Helenic Polis of classical times, a town of the Roman and Byzantine empires, and an ancient Bishopric located in Turkey.[1] and Dioshieron, is generally identified with the ruins at Birgi in modern Turkey. Dioshieron was also the site of a Bishopric and was an important site early christianity. The Diocese of Dioshieron is today a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in the episcopal provence of Asia.[2]
History
Classical Greece
Dioshieron (ancient Greek , Διός Ἱερόν, meaning "sanctuary of Zeus') was an ancient Greek city of Ionia . It belonged to the Delian League as is mentioned in records of tributes to Athens between 454/3 and 416/5 a. C. Moreover, an Athenian decree of 427/6 to. C. indicates that at that time venerated Hieron Colophon. [3][4][5] The city is mentioned by Thusidydies after Chios revolted against the Athenians, while Pliny the Elder says dioshieritas came to Ephesus to settle their legal issues. [6]
Bishopric
An episcopal see is attested from 451AD, as a suffragan of Ephesus, which it remained until the late 12th century when it became a separate metropolis. Dioshieron, was in the Roman province of Asia and was part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ephesus .
There are four known bishops of this diocese.
- Stefano took part in the Council of Ephesus of 431
- Eustorgio was not present at the Council of Chalcedon (451) and in its place he signed the documents on his metropolitan, Stephen of Ephesus;
- Zoeto was among the fathers of the Council of Constantinople of 680 and the one called in Trullo of 692;
- Stefano di Pirgio participated at the two Councils of Constantinople and dell' 869-870 dell'879-880 who dealt with the issue of Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople.
Byzantine
In Byzantine times the city was renamed Cristopoli and, at least from the 9th century, the name of Pyrgion. The city (now called Pyrgion) fell to the Turks in 1307AD.[7]
Today Dioshieron survives as titular bishopric,[8] so far the site has never been assigned. [9][10]
References
- ↑ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Ionia". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis (in English). (New York: Oxford University Press). p.1070.
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 444.
- ↑ Michel Lequien, Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus , Paris 1740, Volume I, coll. 723-724.
- ↑ Pascal Culerrier, Les Évêchés suffragants of Éphèse aux 5th to 13th siècles , in Revue des études byzantines, Vol45, 1987, p.155.
- ↑ Raymond Janin, v. Dioshiéron, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. XIV, Paris 1960, coll. 514-515.
- ↑ Pliny the Elder V, 120.
- ↑ Nesbitt, John W.; Oikonomides, Nicolas, eds. (1996). Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. p. 45. ISBN 0-88402-250-1.
- ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , Leipzig 1931, p. 444.
- ↑ Dioshieron at Catholic heirachy.org.
- ↑ Dioshieron at GCatholic.org.
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