Metropolis in Asia explained

Metropolis in Asia is both a Roman era city and a vacant titular see^[1] located in the ecumenical Province of Asia, in what is today Tratsa, Turkey (near Tatarili)^[2] and Haidarli^[3]

City

The colonia (Roman city), also called Pisidian Nikopolis,^[4] had its own Geurisia Council^[5] and at times minted its own coins.^[6]

It is probable that Metropolis was founded as a Hellenistic colony,^[7] as many names on inscriptions in the city have Macedonian names. The City was mentioned by Livy^[8] and Strabo.^[9]

Bishopric

Ancient bishopric

• Polycarp, Bishop of Pisidian Metropolis.^[10]
• Eustathius^[11]
• Heorticius, attendee at the Council of Chalcedon^[12]
• Monophilus mentioned in a Synod
• John attendee at a Synod in Constantinople.^[13]

Titular Catholic bishops

• Charles de Rousseau † (4 Dec 1606 Appointed – 26 Jun 1608)
• Giovanni Ponzi † (18 May 1894 Appointed – 18 Mar 1895)
• Joseph-Claude Excoffier (30 Mar 1895 Appointed – 3 May 1923)
• Jean-Marie Jan (15 Jan 1924 Appointed – 4 Feb 1929)
• Cyril Rudolph Jarre (18 May 1929 Appointed – 11 Apr 1946)
• Jan van Cauwelaert (6 Jan 1954 Appointed – 10 Nov 1959)
• Fernand-Pierre-Robert Bézac des Martinies † (16 Jan 1961 Appointed – 25 Mar 1963)
• Juan de Dios López de Victoria † (1 Aug 1963 Appointed – 29 Aug 1992)

Notes and References

1. http://catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3m11.html Metropolis in Asia
2. Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov., 1996) P 313-314.
3. Ramsay, Journal of Hellenic Studies April 1883.
4. W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (Cambridge University Press, 2010) p403.
5. Sviatoslav Dmitriev, City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (Oxford University Press, 2005) page 132.
6. http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=369 Metropolis
7. Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov., 1996) P 313-314.
8. [:s:From the Founding of the City/Book 38#15|Livy 38:15-18]
9. Strabo 14:2:29
10. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus (ex Typographia Regia, 1740) p 1051.
11. Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus (ex Typographia Regia, 1740) p 1051.
12. Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (University of Liverpool, 2005) p103.
13. [Michel Le Quien]