Thermae Basilicae

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Thermae Basilicae was a town in the Roman province of Cappadocia Prima. Accordingly, its bishopric, which is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees, was a suffragan of Caesarea in Cappadocia, the capital of the province. [1]

Roman province Major Roman administrative territorial entity outside of Italy

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Catholic Church Christian church led by the Bishop of Rome

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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".

Description

The town is mentioned as Therma by Hierocles (Synecdemus, 699, 2) and is quite probably to be identified with Aquae Sarvenae, which the Tabula Peutingeriana places on the road between Tavium and Caesarea, and with Sarvena, a city described on an inscription and by Ptolemy (V, 6, 12). This would be today Terzili Hammam, a village about 60 miles north of Caesarea, where there are hot mineral sulphur waters, still frequented. A part of the building containing the baths is of Roman construction; a Christian inscription has been found thereon. [2]

Hierocles was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the Synecdemus or Synekdemos, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of the cities of each. The work is dated to the reign of Justinian but prior to 535, as it divides the 912 listed cities in the Empire among 64 Eparchies. The Synecdemus is thus one of the most invaluable monuments which we have to study the political geography of the sixth century East. The work of Hierocles along with that of Stephanus of Byzantium were the principal sources of Constantine VII's work on the Themes. Hierocles was published by Parthey then in a corrected text, by A. Burckhardt in the Teubner series. The most recent major publication was by E. Honigmann.

<i>Tabula Peutingeriana</i> map of the road network in the Roman Empire

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Down to the 13th century, the Notitiae episcopatuum describe the see as the first suffragan of Caesarea. Perhaps there was a bishop from the time of St. Basil; in any case four others are mentioned: Firminus, present at the Council of Chalcedon, 451; Photinus, at a Council of Constantinople in 459; Musonius, exiled by Justin I, about 518; Theodore, present at the Sixth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, 681, and at the Council in Trullo, 692, [2]

Council of Chalcedon Fourth Ecumenical Council held in 451; not accepted by Oriental Orthodoxy

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References

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1), p. 987
  2. 1 2 Wikisource-logo.svg Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Thermae Basilicae". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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