Claudiopolis ( gr, Κλαυδιόπολις) was an ancient city in the

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Paphlagonia Paphlagonia (; el, Παφλαγονία, Paphlagonía, modern translit. ''Paflagonía''; tr, Paflagonya) was an ancient region on the Black Sea coast of north-central Anatolia, situated between Bithynia to the west and Pontus to the east, and s ...

(and later

Honorias Honorias ( el, ) was a late Roman province encompassing parts of Bithynia and Paphlagonia in Asia Minor (modern Asian Turkey). Its capital was Claudiopolis (modern Bolu), and its governor held the modest rank of ''praeses''. History The pr ...

) in northern

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. It was an episcopal see during

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, and remains a

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of the

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Residential bishopric and archbishopric

As secular capital of the

of Honorias, in the civil

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, the bishopric of Claudiopolis became the

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, in the sway of the

Patriarchate of Constantinople The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( el, Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, translit=Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; la, Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constanti ...

, with five

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sees :

Heraclea Pontica __NOTOC__ Heraclea Pontica (; gr, Ἡράκλεια Ποντική, Hērakleia Pontikē), known in Byzantine and later times as Pontoheraclea ( gr, Ποντοηράκλεια, Pontohērakleia), was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asi ...

Prusias ad Hypium Prusias ad Hypium ( grc, Προῦσα πρὸς τῷ Ὑππίῳ ποταμῷ) was a city in ancient Bithynia, and afterwards in the late Roman province of Honorias. In the 4th century it became a bishopric that was a suffragan of Claudiopol ...

Tium Tium ( el, Τῖον) was an ancient settlement, also known as Filyos ( el, Φίλειος), on the south coast of the Black Sea at the mouth of the river Billaeus in present-day Turkey. Ancient writers variously assigned it to ancient Paphlagonia ...

, Cratia and Hadrianopolis in Honoriade. It appears as such in the ''

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'' of Pseudo-Epiphanius of about 640 and in that of

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of the early 10th century, ranking sixteenth viz. seventeenth among the Patriarchate's Metropolitans. The city, known as Claudiopolis (like several others) under Byzantine rule fell to

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migrating west in the 11th century who called it Boli, was recaptured by Byzantines in 1097,

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unsuccessfully by the

Sultanate of Rum fa, سلجوقیان روم () , status = , government_type = Hereditary monarchyTriarchy (1249–1254)Diarchy (1257–1262) , year_start = 1077 , year_end = 1308 , p1 = By ...

in 1177 and reconquered in 1197. Under Ottoman rule since the 14th century it lost to

the Metropolitan dignity. It ceased to exist as a residential bishopric in the 15th century.

Michel Le Quien Michel Le Quien (8 October 1661, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 12 March 1733, Paris) was a French historian and theologian. He studied at Plessis College, Paris, and at twenty entered the Dominican convent in Faubourg Saint-Germain, where he made his pro ...

mentions twenty bishops of the see to the 13th century; documentary mentions are available for the following incumbent bishops and archbishops: * the first is St. Autonomus, said to be an Italian missionary who suffered martyrdom under

Diocletian Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...

. * Callicrates (mentioned in 363 in Socrates Scolasticus' church history) * Gerontius (first actual historically documented bishop, in 394 attending the council against Metropolitan Bagadius of

Bosra Bosra ( ar, بُصْرَىٰ, Buṣrā), also spelled Bostra, Busrana, Bozrah, Bozra and officially called Busra al-Sham ( ar, بُصْرَىٰ ٱلشَّام, Buṣrā al-Shām), is a town in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Dara ...

. * Olympius (in 431) * Calogerus (449 - 458) * Carterius (mentioned in 459) *** Hypatus (circa 518) ismissed by Janin* Epictetus (in 536) ** Vincentius (in 553) ismissed by Janin* Ciprianus I (in 680) ** only Janin also includes a bishop Sisinnius, attending the

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(692), but assigns apparently the same to namesake see Claudiopolis in Isauria * Nicetas I (in 787) * Ignatius, a friend and correspondent of Patriarch

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* Ciprianus II (869 - 879) * Nicetas II (10th-11th centuries) * John (1028 - 1029)

Catholic titular see

The archdiocese was nominally restored by the

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as a Latin Metropolitan

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no later than the seventeenth century, first named Claudiopolis (Latin) / Claudiopoli (Curiate Italian), renamed in 1933 as Claudiopolis in Honoriade (Latin) / Claudiopoli di Onoriade (Italiano) / Claudiopolitanus in Honoriade (Latin).''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 838 It has been held by: *

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(1954.12.12 – 2000.03.26) * Alain Guynot de Boismenu,

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(M.S.C.) (1945.01.18 – 1953.11.05) * Georges-Prudent-Marie Bruley des Varannes (1924.02.13 – 1943.05.29) * Giuseppe Fiorenza (1905.12.11 – 1924.01.27) * Giovanni Battista Bertagna (1901.03.26 – 1905.02.11) * Joseph-Adolphe Gandy, M.E.P. (1889.01.15 – 1892.09.29) * Eugène-Jean-Claude-Joseph Desflèches (范若瑟),

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(M.E.P.) (1883.02.20 – 1887.11.07) * Carlo Gigli (1880.12.13 – 1881.08.24) * Stephanus Antonius Aucher (1796.07.05 – ?) * Tommaso Battiloro (1767.11.20 – 1767.12.14) *''Titular Bishop: Joannes Nicastro (1724.09.11 – ?)'' *''Titular Bishop: Walenty Konstantyn Czulski (1721.02.12 – 1724.02.10?)'' *''Titular Bishop: Piotr Tarło (1713.01.30 – 1720.12.16)'' * Jean-Baptiste Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan (1667.08.03 – 1689.03.09) *'' Titular Bishop: Tomás de Paredes,

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(O.E.S.A.) (1652.10.14 – 1667.02.17)''

References

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