Hierocaesarea
Hierocaesarea or Hierokaisareia, from the Greek for 'sacred' and the Latin for 'Caesar's', also known as Hieracome or Hierakome, was a town and bishopric in the late Roman province of Lydia, the metropolitan see of which was Sardis. It was inhabited during Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times.[1]
History
This town is mentioned by Ptolemy.[2] Judging from its coins, it worshipped the goddess Artemis Persica.
Its site is located between Sazoba and Kumkuyucak in Asiatic Turkey.[1][3]
Bishopric
It is mentioned as an episcopal see in all the Notitiae Episcopatuum until the 12th or 13th century,[4] but only three of its bishops are known:
- Cosinius, at the Council of Chalcedon,[5] 451;
- Zacharias, at the Second Council of Nicaea, 787;[6]
- Theodore, at the Council of Constantinople (879-880).
The see remains a (vacant) titular see in the Roman Catholic Church, with nominal bishops appointed.[7]
- Bishop Ernesto de Paula (1960.01.09 – 1994.12.31)
- Bishop Timothy Phelim O'Shea, OFMCap (1950.05.24 – 1959.04.25)
- Bishop Franz Justus Rarkowski, SM (1938.01.07 – 1950.02.09)
- Bishop John Marie Laval (1911.09.11 – 1937.06.04)
- Bishop Giuseppe Astuni (1903.01.21 – 1911.02.21)
- Bishop Alessandro Beniamino Zanecchia-Ginnetti, OCD (1902.06.09 – 1902.06.18)
- Bishop Désiré-François-Xavier Van Camelbeke, MEP (1884.01.15 – 1901.11.09)
- Bishop Luigi Bienna (1845.04.24 – 1882.07.02)
- Bishop John Bede Polding, OSB (later Archbishop) (1832.07.03 – 1842.04.05)[8]
- Bishop-elect José Seguí, OESA (later Archbishop) (1829.07.27 – 1830.07.05)
- Bishop Antonio Maria Trigona (later Archbishop) (1806.03.31 – 1817.07.28)
- Bishop Gregory Stapleton (1800.11.07 – 1802.05.23)
- Bishop Charles Berington (1786.06.02 – 1798.06.08)
- Bishop Santiago Hernández, OP (1757.08.13 – 1777.02.06)
- Bishop Louis-Joseph de Châteauneuf de Rochebonne (1720.03.04 – 1722.03.01)
References
- Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 56, and directory notes accompanying.
- Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 6.2.16.
- Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church and Other Works: In Nine Volumes, Volume 3 (Straker, 1843)p105.
- Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 p95 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p95.
- Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus p891.
- Titular Episcopal See of Hierocæsarea at GCatholic.org.
- John Bede POLDING.
Sources
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Hierocæsarea". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Hierocæsarea". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.