Aureliopolis in Lydia ( Ancient Greek: Αυρηλιούπολις Λυδίας) is a city in the

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Lydia Lydia ( Lydian: ‎𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish prov ...

, previously called Tmolus or in

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Τμῶλος (Tmolos). It issued coinage under each of these names, and one coin combines both names. In the

Synecdemus The ''Synecdemus'' or ''Synekdemos'' ( el, Συνέκδημος) is a geographic text, attributed to Hierocles, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of their cities. The work is dated to the reign o ...

it appears as Auliou Kome. The name "Aureliopolis" was given in honour of the emperor

Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: áːɾkus̠ auɾέːli.us̠ antɔ́ːni.us̠ English: ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good ...

History

It was a town of ancient Lydia, situated on

Mount Tmolus Mount Tmolus ( Ancient Greek: Τμῶλος, modern Bozdağ; highest point: 2,157 m), named after Tmolus, King of Lydia, is in "a mountain range on the south of Sardis, forming the watershed between the basins of the Hermus in the north and the ...

, and was destroyed during the Lydia earthquake, otherwise known as the Earthquake of the Twelve Cities, in 17 CE. Some coins are extant with the inscription Τμωλείτων, but the actual minting of the coins issued in its name may have been done in the more important neighbouring city of

Sardis Sardis () or Sardes (; Lydian: 𐤳𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣 ''Sfard''; el, Σάρδεις ''Sardeis''; peo, Sparda; hbo, ספרד ''Sfarad'') was an ancient city at the location of modern ''Sart'' (Sartmahmut before 19 October 2005), near Salihli, ...

Bishop

Aureliopolis was the site of an early

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and the names of five of its ancient

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s are preserved in a number of documents. *Antiochus took part in the

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in 325 *John participated actively in the Council of Ephesus in 321 *Eutropius signed a synodical decree of Patriarch Gennadius I of Constantinople in about 460 *Theodotus was at the Trullan Council of 692, and Nicolaus at the

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in 787 No longer a residential bishopric, Aureliopolis in Lydia is today listed by the

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as a titular see.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 842 Titular bishops include: *Mateusz Lipski (24 Nov 1823 - 28 Feb 1831), Bishop of Minsk) *Franz Anton Gindl (30 Sep 1831 Appointed - 2 Jul 1832), Bishop of Brno *Antonín Arnošt Schaaffgotsche (11 Jul 1839 - 27 Jan 1842) Bishop of Brno) *John Francis (William) Whelan, (7 Jun 1842 - 13 Dec 1876) *Jean-Pierre-Ignace Galfione, (31 Aug 1880 Appointed - 19 Dec 1881) *Joseph Colgan (19 May 1882 - 25 Nov 1886), Archbishop of Madras) * Edward Likowski (17 Mar 1887 - 13 Aug 1914, Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań) *Hubert-Olivier Chalifoux (30 Sep 1914 Appointed - 17 Mar 1922) * João de Oliveira Matos Ferreira (11 Dec 1922 - 29 Aug 1962) * Salvatore Asta (13 Oct 1962 Appointed - 30 Dec 2004)

References

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