Prusias ad Hypium
Prusias ad Hypium was a city in ancient Bithynia, and afterwards in the late Roman province of Honorias, and a bishopric that was a suffragan of Claudiopolis in Honoriade. Before its conquest by King Prusias I of Bithynia it was named Cierus or Kieros (Ancient Greek: Κίερος). Photius writes that it was called Kieros, from the river which flows by it.[1]
It site was near Konuralp, Düzce Province, Turkey.[2][3]
History
Memnon of Heraclea says that King Prusias I of Bithynia (237-192 B.C.) captured from the Heracleans the town of Kieros, united it to his dominions and changed its name to Prusias.[4] Pliny[5] and Ptolemy[6] merely mention it, one below Mt. Hypius, the other near the River Hypius.
Bishops
Several of its bishops are known:
- George (not Hesychius, as Le Quien says), 325;
- Olympus in 451;
- Dometius in 681;
- Theophilus in 787;
- Constantine in 869;
- Leo in 879;
- St. Paul, martyred by the iconoclasts in the ninth century.[7]
It is not known when this see disappeared; it still existed in the tenth century.[8]
No longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[9]
References
- ^ Photius, Bibliotheca excerpts, § 224.32.1
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 86, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ "Frag. histor. Graec.", coll. Didot, frag. 27 and 47; fragment 41 treats of Kios/Cius or Guemlek, also called Prusias, and not of Kieros, as the copyist has written; this has given rise to numerous confusions.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.43.
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.1.13.
- ^ Le Quien, Oriens christianus I, 579.
- ^ Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiæ episcopatuum, 554.
- ^ Catholic Hierarchy
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Prusa". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Prusias ad Hypium". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
- DE HELL, Voyage en Turquie et Perse, IV, 334-38, 353-73;
- TEXIER, Asie Mineure, 85;
- LE BAR, Voyage archéologique, 1174–82;
- PERROT, Expédition archéologique de la Galatie et de la Bithynie (Paris, 1872, 20-42).
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