Cidyessus

Cidyessus is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese of Kidyessos in Asia Minor has as its see a city of some importance, west of Ammonia in West-Central Phrygia, in the territory of the Setchanli Ova, or Mouse Plain; this large and fertile valley projects far into Phrygia Salutaris, but the city belonged to Phrygia Pacatiana.

Its site has been determined by an inscription to be modern Küçükhöyük, in Turkey, west of Afyonkarahisar. The old native name may have been Kydessos, though it is Kidyessos on coins.

Bishops

Lequien (I, 801) mentions only three bishops: Heraclius in 451, Andreas in 787, and Thomas in 879. The see is still mentioned in later Notitiæ episcopatuum, until the twelfth or thirteenth centuries, as a suffragan of Laodicea^{[disambiguation needed ]}.

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Cidyessus". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.  The entry cites:
  • Radet, En Phrygie (Paris, 1895), 113;
  • William Mitchell Ramsay, Historical Geography of Asia Minor (London, 1890), 139, 151, 168.