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]

References

• 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.

Notes

1. Synecdemus, 698, 2.
2. Notitiae episcopatuum, I, VIII, IX.
3. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 62, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
5. 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.
6. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 891

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Eudoxias". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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