Lappa (see)

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Lappa or Lampa was an episcopal see, suffragan of Gortyn, based on the ancient town of Lappa, now the site of the village of Argyroupoli.

Episcopal see the main administrative seat held by a bishop

An episcopal see is, in the usual meaning of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

Gortyn Place in Greece

Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna is a municipality and an archaeological site on the Mediterranean island of Crete, 45 km away from the modern capital Heraklion. The seat of the municipality is the village Agioi Deka. Gortyn, the Roman capital of Creta et Cyrenaica, was first inhabited around 3200 BC.

Lappa, or Lampa (Λάμπα), or Lampae or Lampai (Λάμπαι), or Lampe (Λάμπη), was an inland town of ancient Crete, with a district extending from sea to sea, and possessing the port Phoenix. Although the several forms of this city's name occur in ancient authors, yet on coins and in inscriptions the word Lappa is alone found. Stephanus of Byzantium shows plainly that the two names denote the same place, when he says that Xenion, in his Cretica, wrote the word Lappa, and not Lampa. The same authorsays that it was founded by Agamemnon, and was called after one Lampos, a Tarrhaean; the interpretation of which seems to be that it was a colony of Tarrha.

Le Quien (Oriens Christianus, II, 268) mentions the following bishops:

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The episcopal see is mentioned in the Notitiae episcopatuum as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. [1]

It was re-established by the Orthodox Church about the end of the nineteenth century; the bishop resides in the monastery of Preveli.

Preveli is a location on the south coast of the Greek island of Crete, in the Rethymno regional unit, notable for its historic monastery.

It is also a titular see of the Catholic Church under the name Lappa [2] [3] and previously under the name Lampa. [1]

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

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References

  1. 1 2 Wikisource-logo.svg Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Lampa"  . Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", p. 913
  3. ↑ The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church, s.v. Lappa
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