Sasima ( grc, Σάσιμα) was a town of
ancient Cappadocia and in the late
Roman province of
Cappadocia Secunda
Cappadocia was a province of the Roman Empire in Anatolia (modern central-eastern Turkey), with its capital at Caesarea. It was established in 17 AD by the Emperor Tiberius (ruled 14–37 AD), following the death of Cappadocia's last king, Arch ...
, located 24
Roman miles
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to the south of
Nazianzus.
Its site is located near
Hasanköy,
Asiatic Turkey.
History
Sasima is mentioned in only three non-religious documents: "Itiner. Anton.", 144; "Itiner. Hiersol.", 577;
Hierocles, 700, 6. The very small town is known for being the first see of
St. Gregory of Nazianzus who was appointed to it by his friend
St. Basil
Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great ( grc, Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας, ''Hágios Basíleios ho Mégas''; cop, Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲓⲟⲥ; 330 – January 1 or 2, 379), was a bishop of Ca ...
as an aspect of Basil's conflict with
Anthimus. Gregory was there only briefly, if at all. Anthimus, bishop of
Tyana, had claimed status as an archbishop and jurisdiction over Sasima after the Emperor Valens divided Cappadocia into two parts. Anthimus appointed a competing claimant bishop for Sasima to whom Gregory effectively ceded the town. All the Greek ''
Notitiae episcopatuum'' consider Sasima part of Cappadocia Secunda,
[Sophrone Pétridès, "Sasima" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1912)]
/ref> as does the '' Annuario Pontificio'', making it a suffragan of Tyana.[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 964]
Ambrose of Sasima signed the letter of the bishops of the province to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian in 458. About the same time Eleusius appears as an adversary of the Council of Chalcedon.[
Towards 1143 Clement was condemned as a ]Bogomile
Bogomilism (Bulgarian and Macedonian: ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", bogumilstvo, богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic or dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Pe ...
. The "Notitiae" mention the see until the following century.[
]
References
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Populated places in ancient Cappadocia
Former populated places in Turkey
Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
History of Niğde Province
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