- Camachus
Camachus (Italian "Camaco") is a Catholic
titular see . The original see was inArmenia , and does not appear in ecclesiastical history before the seventh century. The true primitive name seems to have been Camacha. Camachus or Camache are later forms. It is todayKemah inEastern Anatolia ,Turkey .History
When the "Pseudo-Ecthesis" of
Epiphanius was drawn up (about 640), it was not yet a see. In 681 George, "Bishop of Daranalis or Camachus", was present at theCouncil of Constantinople and subscribed its acts as "bishop of the clima of Daranalis"; a third name of the see, Analibla, is given by the old Latin version. The same prelate subscribed (692) the acts of theTrullan Council .About the end of the ninth century, Camachus, until then a
suffragan of Sebaste (metropolis of Armenia Prima), was made a metropolitan see byLeo the Philosopher ; it had five, and at one time eight, suffragan sees. Bishop Sisinnius is mentioned in 1028 (Lequien , I, 435).The Assumptionist manuscript lists contain many other names. By the fifteenth century the see had disappeared. Three Latin titulars are mentioned by Lequien (III, 1109).
References
*William Smith, "
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography ",, (London, 1878), I, 486.External link
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2c21.html "Catholic Hierarchy" page]
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