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The former residential episcopal see of Bonitza, centred on a town in the Roman province of Epirus Vetus, is now a titular see of the Catholic Church. [1] The town that was the centre of the diocese is now called Vonitsa (Greek : Βόνιτσα). It is unknown when the residential bishopric disappeared.

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A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese".

Vonitsa Place in Greece

Vonitsa is a town in the northwestern part of Aetolia-Acarnania in Greece, seat of the municipality of Aktio-Vonitsa. Population 4,916 (2011). The beach town is situated on the south coast of the Ambracian Gulf, and is dominated by a Venetian fortress on a hill. Vonitsa is 13 kilometres southeast of Preveza, 18 kilometres northeast of Lefkada (city) and 90 kilometres northwest of Agrinio. The Greek National Road 42 passes through Vonitsa.

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Louis Petit, writing for the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia, said that the name "Bodone", by which the titular see was then known, was a dialect variation of "Dodone", the French form of the name "Dodona". He identified the titular see with the former residential see of Dodona and gave information on early Bishops of Dodona. [2] Confusing matters further, there were two cities in Greece named "Dodona", the one in Epirus, noted above, and another one in Thessaly, which Stephanus of Byzantium writes was also called Bodona (Βωδώνη). [3]

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Dodona human settlement

Dodona in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the second millennium BCE according to Herodotus. The earliest accounts in Homer describe Dodona as an oracle of Zeus. Situated in a remote region away from the main Greek poleis, it was considered second only to the oracle of Delphi in prestige.

The Annuario Pontificio treats the titular sees of Bonitza and Dodona as distinct. [4]

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John, Bishop of Bonditza, signed a synodal act in 1229 (P.G., CXIX, 797).

The "Nova Tactica" (Georgius Cyprius ed. Heinrich Gelzer, 1661) has "Mounditza", but this, Petit says, is an evident mistake for "Bounditza", a form derived from "Bodone" (Gustav Parthey, Notitiae episcopatuum ., App. 48). In fact the later "Notitiae" wrote only Bounditza (ibid., III, 524), or Bonditza (ibid., X, 616; XIII, 467). Petit gave the contemporary place name as "Bonitza", the form now given in the Annuario Pontificio, along with the Italian form "Bonizza".

Heinrich Gelzer was a German classical scholar. He wrote also on Armenian mythology. He was the son of the Swiss historian Johann Heinrich Gelzer (1813–1889). He became Professor of classical philology and ancient history at the University of Jena, in 1878. He wrote a still-standard work on Sextus Julius Africanus. He worked out the chronology of Gyges of Lydia, from cuneiform evidence, in an 1875 article.

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The Roman Curia used for a long time the form "Bodona" (adjectival form: "Bodonensis"), and a decree of 1894 directed this name to be suppressed at the death of its titular.

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References

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", p. 851
  2. ↑ Louis Petit, "Bodone" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1907)
  3. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v. Δωδώνη.
  4. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013, pp. 851 and 882
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