Amasia (titular see)

Amasia (titular see)

Amasia (Amasea) is a Catholic titular see. Corresponding to modern Amasya (Amasiah), it was a metropolis of Pontus in Asia Minor on the River Iris.

History

Its episcopal list dates from the third century [Gams I, 442.] . It was the birthplace of the geographer Strabo, who left a striking description of his native city, in a deep and extensive gorge over which rose abruptly a lofty rock, "steep on all sides and descending abruptly to the river". It was famous in antiquity for its rock-cisterns, reached by galleries, of which some traces remain; also for the tombs of the ancient kings of Pontus hewn in the solid rock.

References

*Lequien, "Oriens Christianus" (1740), I, 521-532
*Van Lennep, "Travels in Asia Minor" (London, 1870), I, 86-106

Notes

External links

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01380c.htm Source]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2a86.html "Catholic Hierarchy" page]


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