Eudoxias
Eudoxias was a city and bishopric in the late Roman province of Galatia Secunda, in Asia Minor.
Location
Eudoxias is mentioned only by Hierocles[1] and the Notitiae episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.[2]
The original name of the town is unknown, Eudoxias being the name given to it in honour either of the mother or of the daughter of Theodosius II. It was perhaps Gordion, where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot, and stood perhaps at the modern Yürme, in the vilayet of Angora. Others, however, identify Eudoxias with Akkilaion, whose site is unknown, and place Germe at Yürme. Modern scholars tentatively identify a location near Hamamkarahisar.[3][4]
Bishopric
The see was a suffragan of Pessinus.
Two bishops are known, Aquilas in 451 and Menas in 536.[5] Another is spoken of in the life of Theodore of Sycae, about the end of the sixth century.
It is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[6]
Canonical status and jurisdiction
Eudoxias is a titular see of the Catholic Church.[7]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Eudoxias, a titular see of Galatia Secunda in Asia Minor, suffragan of Pessinus. Eudoxias is mentioned only by Hierocles (Synecdemus, 698, 2) and Parthey (Notit. episc., I, VIII, IX). Two bishops are known, Aquilas in 451 and Menas in 536 (Lequien, Or. christ., I, 495). Another is spoken of in the life of St. Theodore of Sycae, about the end of the sixth century. The original name of the town is unknown, Eudoxias being the name given to it in honor either of the mother or of the daughter of Theodosius II. It was perhaps Gordion, where Alexander the Great cut the famous knot, and stood perhaps at the modern Yürme, in the vilayet of Angora. Others, however, identify Eudoxias with Akkilaion, whose site is unknown, and place Germe at Yürme.
References
- Back to citation Synecdemus, 698, 2.
- Back to citation Notitiae episcopatuum, I, VIII, IX.
- Back to citation Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
- Back to citation Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Back to citation Le Quien, Michel (1740). Oriens Christianus, in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus: quo exhibentur ecclesiæ, patriarchæ, cæterique præsules totius Orientis. Tomus primus: tres magnas complectens diœceses Ponti, Asiæ & Thraciæ, Patriarchatui Constantinopolitano subjectas (in Latin). Paris: Ex Typographia Regia. col. 495. OCLC 955922585.
- Back to citation Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 891
- Back to citation Wikidata item Q1372277
Bibliography
- William Mitchell Ramsay, Asia Minor, 224–226;
- Anderson in Journal of Hellen. Studies, XIX, 88;
- ____ in Annual of the British School at Athens, IV, 66.