Synaus (titular see)

Synaus is a Catholic titular see, originally a city in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of the archdiocese of Laodicea. It is now Simav, Turkey.

Nothing is known of the history of this city located by Ptolemy [V, ii, 22.] in Great Phrygia, and in the sixth century by Hierocles [668, 13.] , in Phrygia Pacatiana, its metropolis being Laodicea. It has a few inscriptions but no ruins.

Bishops

Le Quien ["Oriens christianus", I, 813.] mentions the following bishops:

*Arabius, represented by his metropolitan at Chalcedon (451);
*Pronimus, at Constantinople (553);
*Stephanus, at Nicæa (787);
*Constantine at Constantinople (869);
*Sisinnius and Eusebius, supporters respectively of St. Ignatius and Photius, at the Photian Council of Constantinople (879);
*Isaac, at the Council of Constantinople (1351), which approved the doctrines of Palamas.

To these may be added Stephanus, whose name occurs in the inscription (eighth century?) "Corp. inser. græc.", 8666 perhaps the Stephanus mentioned in 787.

Admininstrative history

In 1394 the See of Synaus was united to the diocese of Philadelphia. In the seventh century it was still suffragan of Laodicea; it seems also that at this time it was united to the See of Ancyra, now Kilissé Keui. In the ninth century it was attached to the metropolis of Hierapolis and remained so till its disappearance, as appears from the Greek "Notitiæ episcopatuum"; however, the Roman Curia's official list of titular sees makes it suffragan of Laodicea.

References

*Hamilton, "Researches in Asia Minor", II (London, 1842), 124;
*William Smith, "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography", s. v.;
*Texier, "Asie mineure", 407;
*Cuniet, "La Turquie d'Asie", LV, 222;
*Wächter, "Der Verfall des Griechentums in Kleinasien im XIV. Jahrhundert" (Leipzig, 1903), 62.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14382a.htm "Catholic Encyclopedia" article]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3s26.html "Catholic Hierarchy" page]