Mosynopolis

A central plan church.

Mosynopolis (Greek: Μαξιμιανούπολις - Μοσυνόπολις, Bulgarian: Месинопол), known in late Antiquity as Maximianoupolis, was a Byzantine town in Thrace located on the Via Egnatia near the modern Greek city of Komotini. The town was destroyed by the Bulgarian tsar Kaloyan in 1207^[1] after his victory over the Latin Empire in the battle of Mosynopolis. The monk Ephrem^[2] says that the city had been taken in 1190 by Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Ecclesiastical history

The episcopal see was a suffragan of Trajanopolis in Rhodope.

A single bishop is known, Paul, who assisted at the council of 878, which re-established Photius.^[3] The see is mentioned in the Notitia of Leo the Wise, about 900^[4]; in that for 940^[5]; in that for 1170 under the name of Misinoupolis^[6].

Mosynoupolis remains a Roman Catholic Church titular see, sometimes cited by the Italian name Mosinopoli.^[7]

Photographs

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  Fortress: a little souther from the church.

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  A central plan church.

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  A central plan church.

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  A central plan church.

References

1. ^ Kiel, Machiel (1971). "Observations on the History of Northern Greece during the Turkish Rule: Historical and Architectural Description of the Turkish Monuments of Komotini and Serres, their place in the Development of Ottoman Turkish Architecture and their Present Condition". Balkan Studies 12: 417. 
2. ^ Cæsares, V. 5695, in Patrologia Graeca, CXLIII, 216.
3. ^ Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 1205.
4. ^ Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Notitiæ episcopatuum, 558.
5. ^ Gelzer, Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis Romani, 79.
6. ^ Parthey, Hierocles Synecdemus, 122.
7. ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3m55.html

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Mosynoupolis". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 

Coordinates: 41°07′43″N 25°19′31″E / 41.12861°N 25.32528°E / 41.12861; 25.32528