Basilinopolis

Basilinopolis is a Catholic titular see. The original see, in Asia Minor, was a small village in Bithynia Prima, which then obtained the rank of a city under, or perhaps shortly before, Julian the Apostate. [Mansi, VII, 305.]

Its exact site is not known. According to W. M. Ramsay [Hist. Geogr. of Asia Minor, 179.] it was probably situated in present-day Turkey, on the western side of the Lake of Nicaea (Isnik-Ghueul), near Bazar-Keui, between Kios (now Gemlik) and Nicaea (Isnik).

Bishops

The first known bishop, Alexander, was consecrated by John Chrysostom about 400. Other bishops are

*Gerontius (451),
*Cyriacus (518),
*Sisinnius (680),
*Georgius (787),
*and Anthimus in 878. [Lequien, "Oriens Christianus", I, 623-625.]

At the Council of Chalcedon (451) the see had been the object of a sharp contest between the metropolitans of Nicomedia and Nicaea about jurisdiction. Basilinopolis was finally made by the council a suffragan of Nicomedia [Mansi, ibid., 301-314.] ; and it remained so until about 1170 under Manuel Comnenus [Hierocles, "Synecdemos", ed. Parthey, 169.] .

The see does not figure in a "Notitia episcopatuum" of the fifteenth century, after the Osmanli conquest.

Notes

External link

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2b30.html "Catholic Hierarchy" page]