Tius

Tius is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was a suffragan of Claudiopolis in Honorias; its see was also known as Tium, Tieium, Tieion, Tios or Tion (Greek: Τῖον). It corresponds to modern Filyos (Hisarönü). Modern Filyos (Filyas) stands on the ruins of ancient Tium, which included remains of ramparts and sculptures. It is not far from the mouth on the Black Sea of the Filyas River, the Billaeus in the antique period.^[1]

According to Strabo (542, 545) the town was only remarkable as the birthplace of Philetaerus, founder of the royal dynasty of Pergamus. The coins give a certain Dionysius as the founder; in fact it was the site of a temple of Dionysius and one of Jupiter. Tieion was a Greek colony of Miletus^[2]

Novel xxix of Justinian locates the town in Paphlagonia but geographically is in Bithynia^[3]. George Pachymeres (I, 312) mentions Tium among the Byzantine towns which escaped the attacks of the Seljuks in 1269.

Bishops

Le Quien (Oriens christianus, I, 575) mentions among its bishops:

• Apragmonius at the First Council of Ephesus in 431;
• Andrew in 518;
• Eugenius in 536;
• Longinus at the Sixth General Council in 681;
• Michael at the Seventh General Council in 787;
• Constantine, at the Eighth General Council in 869, and author of an account of the transfer of the relics of St. Euphemia of Chalcedon (Acta Sanctorum, September, V, 274-83).

This see figures in all the Notitiae episcopatuum.

Notes

1. ^ Ancient coinage of Bithynia
2. ^ Miletos, the ornament of Ionia: a history of the city to 400 B.C.E. By Vanessa B. Gorman Page 70 ISBN 047211199X
3. ^ Herakleia and Tieion were geographically Bithynian- Hellenisation and Romanisation in Pontos-Bithynia : An Overview by Christian Marek

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Tius". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.  The entry cites:
  • SMITH, Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Geog., s. v.;
  • BOUTKOWSKI, Recherches historiques sur la ville de Tium (Paris, 1864);
  • MULLER, ed. DIDOT, Notes on Geographi Graeci minores, I, 385;
  • CUINET, La Turquie d'Asie, IV (Paris, 1894), 537.