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

^ ^a ^b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 56, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ 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.

38°47′51″N 27°47′31″E / 38.79751°N 27.79188°E / 38.79751; 27.79188

[Barrington-1] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 56, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

[2] Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 6.2.16.

[3] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

[4] Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church and Other Works: In Nine Volumes, Volume 3 (Straker, 1843)p105.

[5] Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 p95 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p95.

[6] Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus p891.

[7] Titular Episcopal See of Hierocæsarea at GCatholic.org.

[8] John Bede POLDING.

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