Uranopolis
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Uranopolis is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, that is, it is a diocese that exists in title only. It is the seat of a suffragan bishop. It cannot be found on any extant maps, as its name is an error, originally intented to be Verinopolis, named in honour of Verina, mother-in-law of the Emperor Zeno. Le Quien (Oriens christ., I, 481) mentions three bishops: Stephen, present at the Trullan Council, 692; Anthimus, at the second Council of Nice, 787; Sisinnius, at the Councils of Constantinople, 869, 878.
The diocese was named in Ecthesis in 640, and then again in the work of Leo the Philosopher under the name of a nearby location, Stauros; it was also referred to by Constantine Porphyrogenitus in 940. Verinopolis has also been purported to be the Byzantine name of Evagina, a station described by Ptolemy under the altered name of Phubagina. Evagina-Verinopolis is currently in a ruined state.
[edit] References
- Ramsey (1890). Asia Minor. London.
- MÜLLER, ed. DIDOT; DIDOT (1890). Notes on Ptolemy.
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
