Trocmades
Trocmades or Trocmada was a city in the Roman province of Galatia Secunda. It appears to have been on the site of the modern Turkish village of Kaymaz, about twenty-four miles east of Eskişehir, Turkey.
History
The city is known from ecclesiastical records; no geographer or historian mentions a city of this name. Hierocles' Synecdemus (698, 1) gives "regio Trocnades", instead of Ρηγετνοκνάδα; the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia speculates that this usage refers to the Galatian name of some tribe on the left bank of the Sangarius.
Some writers have associated the name of Trocmades with the Galatian tribe of the Trocmi and even with the Biblical name of Togarmah, mentioned in Genesis 10:3, 1 Chronicles 1:6, and Ezekiel 27:14 and 38:6.[1]
Ecclesiastical history
All the Notitiae episcopatuum up to the 13th century mention among the suffragans of Pessinus the see Τροκμάδων, meaning "of Trocmades" or "of Trocmada"; the two most recent (13th century) call it Λωτίνου; perhaps it should be Πλωτίνου, meaning "of (Saint) Plotinus", venerated there.
Le Quien, who gives the name of the see as Trocmada (neuter plural), mentions the following bishops:[2]
- Cyriacus, who represented his metropolitan at the Second Council of Ephesus (449), and was represented by a priest at the Council of Chalcedon (451)
- Theodore, present at the Council of Constantinople (681)
- Leo, at the Second Council of Nicaea (787)
- Constantine at the Council of Constantinople (879-880).
Cyriacus, said to have assisted at the First Council of Nicaea (325), is not mentioned in the authentic lists of bishops present at that council.
The see of Trocmades is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[3]
Canonical status and jurisdiction
Trocmades is a titular see of the Catholic Church.[4]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Trocmades — (Trocmada)
Titular see of Galatia Secunda, suffragan of Pessinus. No geographer or historian mentions a city of this name; Hierocles (Synecemus, 698, 1) gives "regio Trocnades", instead of Regetnoknada, referring, doubtless, to the Galatian name of some tribe on the left bank of the Sangarius; its principal centre was probably in the present village of Kaimez, about twenty-four miles east of Eski Shehir, a vilayet of Broussa. All the "Notitiae episcopatuum" up to the thirteenth century mention the see Trokmadon among the suffragans of Pessinus; the two most recent (thirteenth century) call it Lotinou; perhaps it should be Plotinou, from St. Plotinus, venerated there. The official lists of the Roman Curia give Trocmadae. Le Quien (Oriens christianus, I, 493), gives Trocmada. From these erroneous forms arises a confusion of the name with the Galatian tribe of Trocmi. The last named author gives a list of the known bishops: Cyriacus, who represented his metropolitan at the Robber Synod of Ephesus (449), and was represented by a priest at the Council of Chalcedon (451); Theodore, present at the Council of Constantinople (681); Leo, at Nicaea (787); Constantine at the Photian Council of Constantinople (879). Cyriacus, said to have assisted at the Council of Nicaea (325), is not mentioned in the authentic lists of bishops present at that council.
References
- Back to citation Edward Wells, An Historical Geography of the Old and New Testament (Clarendon Press 1809), vol. 1, p. 65
- Back to citation Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Tomus I, coll. 493-496
- Back to citation Annuario Pontifico 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 997
- Back to citation Wikidata item Q2454812