Zenopolis ( grc, Ζηνούπολις) was an

ancient Roman In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...

and

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

city in

Isauria Isauria ( or ; grc, Ἰσαυρία), in ancient geography, is a rugged, isolated, district in the interior of Asia Minor, of very different extent at different periods, but generally covering what is now the district of Bozkır and its surrou ...

. Its site is located near Elmayurdu in Asiatic Turkey.

History

This city was the birthplace of Emperor

Zeno Zeno ( grc, Ζήνων) may refer to: People * Zeno (name), including a list of people and characters with the name Philosophers * Zeno of Elea (), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, known for his paradoxes * Zeno of Citium (333 – 264 BC), ...

(474–491), and was renamed in his honour. Its previous name was Rusumblada, according to Ramsay, but the author of the entry on Rusumblada in ''Paulys Real-Encyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft'' considers this uncertain. Its modern name is Isnebol.

George of Cyprus George of Cyprus ( el, Γεώργιος Κύπριος; Latinized as ''Georgius Cyprius'') was a Byzantine geographer of the early seventh century. Nothing is known of his life save that he was born at Lapithos in the island of Cyprus. He is kno ...

mentioned it in the 7th century, as did

Constantine Porphyrogenitus Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (; 17 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Ka ...

in the 10th century, as a city of the

Isaurian Decapolis The Isaurian Decapolis was a group of ten cities ( el, Δεκάπολις) in ancient and medieval Isauria.W. M. Ramsay, The Historical Geography of Asia Minor(Cambridge University Press, 2010 p366 According to the ''De Thematibus'' of the 10th-cent ...

.Siméon Vailhé, "Zenonopolis" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1912)
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Bishopric

The city is recorded as a bishopric in the 6th-century ''

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'' of the

Patriarchate of Antioch Patriarch of Antioch is a traditional title held by the bishop of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey). As the traditional "overseer" (ἐπίσκοπος, ''episkopos'', from which the word ''bishop'' is derived) of the first gentile Christian c ...

, but in about 732 Isauria was attached to the

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

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 two bishops:Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'' (Paris 1740, Tomus II, coll. 1033-1034
/ref> * Eulalius (), at the

Third Council of Constantinople The Third Council of Constantinople, counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, as well by certain other Western Churches, met in 680–681 and condemned monoenergism and monothelitism as heretical a ...

(681) * Marcus, at the

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(787) The

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's list of

titular see A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...

s continues to include the see as Zenopolis in Isauria.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 1012 Past

titular Bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...

s include: * Luke Wadding (26 Aug 1671 Appointed - 23 Aug 1678) *Luigi Moccagatta, (3 Mar 1844 Appointed - 6 Sep 1891) *

Francesco Albino Symon Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name " Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (disambiguation), sev ...

(17 Dec 1891 Appointed - 2 Aug 1897) *Engelberto Voršak (24 Mar 1898 Appointed - 22 Aug 1921) * Stefan Walczykiewicz (20 Jul 1928 Appointed - 12 May 1940) *Jean-Baptiste Castanier,(29 Nov 1940 Appointed - 12 Mar 1943) *Anton Scharnagl (10 Apr 1943 Appointed - 19 Jan 1955) *

Jacques Henri Romeijn Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

,(10 Jul 1955 Appointed - 3 Jan 1961) *

Giovanni Ferrofino Giovanni Ferrofino (24 February 1912 – 20 December 2010) was an Italian Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Early life and ordination Ferrofino was born in 1912 in the city of Alessandria in north-west Italy. On 22 September 1934 he was ...

(28 Oct 1961 Appointed - 20 Dec 2010)

References

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