Arabissus
Arabissus or Arabissos (Ancient Greek: Ἀραβισσός), also known as Tripotamos,[1] was a town in ancient Cataonia, then Cappadocia, and later in the Roman province of Armenia Secunda.
History
The Byzantine Emperor Maurice was born there in 539 who embellished it during his reign. The town suffered from the earthquake of 584/85 and in July 629, emperor Heraclius met here with Shahrbaraz to arrange terms with Persia to end the ongoing war.[2]
The town belonged to the so-called Armenian Hexapolis and remained under Byzantine control in the seventh century.[3] It suffered much during the wars with the Arabs and became the center of a kleisoura.[2] After Sayf al-Dawla ravaged Arabissos and its environment in his campaigns of 944 and 951, the town was replaced by Plasta.[4]
Location
The town corresponds to present-day Afşin, formerly Yarpuz, in Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey.[5][1] A cave of the Seven Sleepers is located in the Eshab-ı Kehf Kulliye.
Ecclesiastical history
Arabissus was an episcopal see, a suffragan of Melitene.
Eudoxius of Antioch, the bishop of Antioch, was from Arabissus.[6]
Its diocesan bishops included Otreius, who was at the First Council of Constantinople in 381, and Adolius at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Adelphius, who was a signatory of the 458 letter of the bishops of the province of Armenia II to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian to protest at the murder of Proterius of Alexandria, the writer Leontius, who came later, and Georgius, who was at the Trullan Council of 692. Michael the Syrian mentions several Jacobite Church bishops of Arabissus of the 7th to the 10th centuries.[7][8] Its titular bishops include Stephen Peter Alencastre (1924–1940).
Arabissus is now a titular see of the Catholic Church.[9]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Arabissus — A titular see of Armenia, suffragan of Melitene; its episcopal list is known from 381 to 692 (Gams,( p. 441).
LE QUIEN, Oriens Christ., (1740), I, 449-450.
References
- Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Back to citation occurrence 2.0 Back to citation occurrence 2.1 Foss 1991, p. 149.
- Back to citation Cooper & Decker 2012, p. 263.
- Back to citation Cooper & Decker 2012, p. 26.
- Back to citation Titular Sees ('A')
- Back to citation Suda, Eudoxius
- Back to citation Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 441
- Back to citation Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, coll. 449-450
- Back to citation Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 836
Bibliography
- Foss, Clive (1991). "Arabissos". The Oxford Dictionary of BYZANTIUM. Dumbarton Oaks. p. 149. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
- Cooper, Eric; Decker, Michael J. (24 July 2012). Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia. Springer. pp. 17, 25–28, 43. ISBN 978-1-137-02964-5. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- Attribution
- Le Quien, Oriens Christianus (1740), I, 449-450