Traianopolis, Trajanopolis, Tranopolis, or Tranupolis ( el, Τραϊανούπολις) was a

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and

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city in Phrygia Pacatiana Prima. Trajanopolis has been variously identified; Radet locates it at Çarikköy, about three miles from Giaurören towards the south-east, on the road from

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to Suzusköy, a village abounding in sculptures, marbles and fountains, where the name of the city may be read on the inscriptions. However, Ramsay continues to identify Trajanopolis with Giaurören. Modern scholars place it near

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History

The only Ancient geographer who speaks of Trajanopolis is

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, who wrongly places this city in Greater

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(another region of

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). It was founded about 109 by the Grimenothyritae, who obtained permission from Roman emperor

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to give the place the name of his predecessor. It had its own coins. Hierocles calls it Tranopolis.

Ecclesiastical history

In the ''

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'', Traianopolis is usually called Tranopolis, and is mentioned as an

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up to the 13th century, among the

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s of Laodicea, the capital and

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of the

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of Phrygia Pacatiana Prima.

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names seven bishops of Trajanopolis: * John, present at a Council of Constantinople in 459 under the Patriarch Gennadius I * John, at the Council of Constantinople under

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in 536 * Asignius, at the

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in 553 * Tiberius, at the

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in 692 * Philip, at the

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in 787 * Eustathius, at the Council of Constantinople (879-880). * Another, doubtless more ancient than the preceding, Demetrius, is known from one inscription.

Titular see

The bishopric of Trajanopolis is included in the

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's list of

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s,''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 995 as the diocese was nominally restored in the 17th century as a

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, initially as just Traianopolis, renamed since 1933 Trajanopolis in Phrygia, thus avoiding confusion with its Thracian namesake (in Roman province

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). It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank, ''with a singular archiepiscopal exception : * Jerónimo Zolivera (1672.02.22 – 1683.01.11) * Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol (1859.04.15 – 1865.02.17) * Giulio Marsili,

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(O.F.M.) (1873.11.11 – 1873.11.11) * Adam Carel Claessens (1874.06.16 – 1884.01.04) as Apostolic Vicar of

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(1884.01.04 – 1895.07.10) * Tomás Jenaro de Cámara y Castro,

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(O.E.S.A.) (1883.08.09 – 1885.03.27) * Piers Power (1886.01.29 – 1887.12.06) * Louis-Hippolyte-Aristide Raguit (祁類思),

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(M.E.P.) (1888.03.23 – 1889.05.17) *'' Titular Archbishop Enrico Giuseppe Reed da Silva (1898.03.24 – 1930.10.04), as emeritate; previously Titular Bishop of Philadelphia in Arabia (1884.03.17 – 1887.03.14),

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(Mozambique) (1884.03.27 – 1887.03.14), Bishop of São Tomé de Meliapor (India) (1887.03.14 – 1897.09.15) * Agostino Laera (1931.07.24 – 1942.01.17) * Felice Agostino Addeo,

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(O.S.A.) (1942.07.01 – 1957.02.07) * Humberto Lara Mejía,

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(C.M.) (1957.07.19 – 1967.05.05)

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