Cinna (Galatia)

Cinna or Kinna was a town of ancient Galatia.[1] It was also the seat of a bishop; no longer a residential see, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[2]

Asia Minor in the Greco-Roman period - general map - regions and main settlements.

Location

Its site is located near Karahamzılı, Asiatic Turkey.[3][4][5] The exact location of Cinna is now lost though it is thought to have been near village of Balyk Koyounji (vilayet of Angora) in a rich corn-growing area, west of Ankara.[6][7]

History

During the late Roman Empire the town was a seat of a bishop, several of whom are known to us.[8]

• Gregorius, attendee at Council of Niceae 325
• Philumenus of Cinna[9][10]
• Acacius[11]
• Daniel
• Amiantus
• Plato
• George[12]
• Synesius
• Thrasius
• Antonius

References

1. Joseph Bingham, The antiquities of the Christian church (W. Straker, 1840) page 99.
2. Cathiolic Hierarchy
3. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 63, and directory notes accompanying.
4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
5. Ramsay, Hist. Geogr. Of Asia Minor (London, 1890), 245, 247, 430.
6. Ramsay, Historical Geography of Asia Minor (London, 1890), pages 245-247 & 430.
7. Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae (Straker, 1840), page 99.
8. Michel Le Quien, "Notitiae episcopatuum", I,483.
9. Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005 ) page 299.
10. Gabriel Cossart, Sacrosancta Concilia Ad Regiam Editionem Exacta: Ab Anno CCCCXXXI. ad annum CCCCLI.(Coleti Et Albrizzi, 1728) page 135.
11. Michel Le Quien , Oriens christianus (ex Typographia Regia, 1740 ) page 483.
12. CONSTANS II AND THE ROMAN CHURCH : A POSSIBLE INSTANCE OF IMPERIAL PRESSURE, P. A. B. Llewellyn Byzantion Vol. 46, No. 1 (1976), pp. 120-126.