- Parium
Parium (or Parion) was a Greek city in
Mysia on theHellespont . It became a Roman Catholictitular see ,suffragan ofCyzicus in theRoman province ofHellespontus .History
Located near
Lampsacus , it was a colony probably founded byEretria andParos . It belonged to theDelian League . In theHellenistic period it came under the domain ofLysimachus , and subsequently theAttalid dynasty . In Roman times, it was a Colonia, within the province of Asia; and after the province was divided in the4th century AD , it was in the province ofHellespontus . The ancient coinage of Parium is quite abundant, attesting to its great output and advanced mint (in Hellenistic times, the city's badge shown on coins was theGorgoneion ). [ [http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=106 Asia Minor Coins - ancient coins of Parium] ]Christian history
The Acts of the
martyr St. Onesiphorus prove that there was a Christian community there before 180. Other saints worthy of mention are:St. Menignus , martyred underDecius and venerated on22 November ;St. Theogenes , bishop and martyr, whose feast is observed on3 January ;St. Basil , bishop and martyr in the ninth century, venerated on12 April .Le Quien ("Oriens christianus" I, 787-90) mentions 14 bishops, the last of whom lived in the middle of the fourteenth century. An anonymous Latin bishop is mentioned in 1209 byInnocent III (Le Quien, op. cit., III, 945) and a titular bishop in 1410 byEubel ("Hierarchia Catholica medii ævi", I, 410). At first a suffragan of the Archbishopric, Parium became anautocephalous archdiocese as early as 640 (Heinrich Gelzer , "Ungedruckte ... Texte", 535) and remained so till the end of the thirteenth century. Then the EmperorAndronicus II made it ametropolis under the title of Pegon kai Pariou. In 1354Pegæ and Parium (the Latin forms of both names) were suppressed, the incumbent metropolitan receiving in exchange the See of Sozopolis inThrace (Miklosich and Müller, "Acta patriarchatus Constantinopolitani", I, 109, 111, 132, 300, 330). This was the end of the episcopal see. The ruins of Parium were under Ottoman rule at the Greek village ofKamares (the vaults), on the small cape Tersana-Bournou in the caza andsandjak ofBigha .Notes
External links
*CathEncy|title=Parium|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11503a.htm
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