Eudoxias

Eudoxias is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Galatia Secunda, Asia Minor, a suffragan of Pessinus.

Eudoxias is mentioned only by Hierocles ["Synecdemus", 698, 2.] and Parthey ["Notitiae episcopatuum", I, VIII, IX.]

The original name of the town is unknown, Eudoxias being the name given to it in honour either of the mother or of the daughter of Theodosius II. It was perhaps Gordion, where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot, and stood perhaps at the modern Yürme, in the vilayet of Angora. Others, however, identify Eudoxias with Akkilaion, whose site is unknown, and place Germe at Yürme.

Bishops

Two bishops are known, Aquilas in 451 and Menas in 536. [Lequien, "Oriens christianus", I, 495.] Another is spoken of in the life of Theodore of Sycæ, about the end of the sixth century.

References

*William Mitchell Ramsay, "Asia Minor", 224-226;
*Anderson in "Journal of Hellen. Studies", XIX, 88;
*____ in "Annual of the British School at Athens", IV, 66.

Notes

External link

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05597b.htm "Catholic Encyclopedia" article]