- Eucarpia
Eucarpia is a Catholic
titular see . The original diocese was inPhrygia Salutaris ,Asia Minor .Eucarpia (Eukarpia), mentioned by
Strabo (XII, 576) and several other geographers, was situated on a road fromDorylaeum toEumenia , between the Dorylaeum-Acmonia and Dorylaeum-Synnada roads, probably at the modernEmin Hissar , in the vilayet of Brusa.Imposing ruins, seen by Hamilton in 1837, have almost disappeared. Nothing is known about the history of the city. It struck its own coins from the time of
Augustus until the reign ofVolusianus .Bishops
The bishopric, a suffragan of
Synnada , figures in the "Notitiae episcopatuum " until the twelfth or thirteenth century. Six bishops are known:*Eugenius, present at the
Council of Nicaea (325),
*Auxomenus in 381,
*Cyriacus in 451,
*Dionysius in 536,
*Constantine or Constans in 787 (not mentioned byLequien ), and Constantine in 879.References
*CathEncy|title=Eucarpia|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05572b.htm
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
