The Diocese of Magnesia was an ancient Bishopric of Early Christianity.
The seat of the bishopric was the town of Magnesia on the Maeander in western Turkey, and Hierocles[1] ranks it among the bishoprics of the province of Asia. Later documents seem to imply that at one time it bore the name of Maeandropolis.[2]
Known bishops of Magnesia edit
- Saint Charalambos
- Damas Bishop of Magnesia at the time of Saint Ignatius[3]
- Leontius, Bishop of Magnesia, who at the Council of Chalcedon declared that from Timothy to the time of Chalcedon there had been 26 Bishops of Ephesisus[4]
- Macarius, contemporary of St. Chrysostom[5]
- Daphnus fl 431
- Leontius at the Robber-Council (449)[6]
- Patritius at the synod in Trullo (692)
- Theophilus at Constantinople (879)
References edit
- ^ Hierocles p. 659
- ^ Concil. Constantin. iii. p. 666.
- ^ H. Burn-Murdoch, Church, Continuity and Unity. Cambridge University Press (2014), p. 120.
- ^ John Esten Cooke, An Essay on the Invalidity of Presbyterian Ordination (the Reporter office, 1829) p46.
- ^ Le Quien, Oriens Christianus, I, 697, 736.
- ^ MacErlean, A. (1910). Magnesia. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved March 8, 2018 from New Advent.