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.
- 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. 5.43.
- Ptolemy. The Geography. 5.1.13.
- Le Quien, Oriens christianus I, 579.
- Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiæ episcopatuum, 554.
- Catholic Hierarchy
- 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).