Cyrrhus (; el, Κύρρος ''Kyrrhos'') is a city in ancient Syria founded by Seleucus Nicator, one of

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's generals. Other names for the city include Coricium, Corice, Hagioupolis, Nebi Huri ( ar, نبي هوري), and Khoros (حوروس ''Ḳūrus''). A

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of the sixth century connects it to Cyrus, king of Persia due to the resemblance of the names. The former Roman/Byzantine (arch)bishopric is now a double Catholic

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Location

Its ruins are located in northern Syria, near the Turkish border. It lies about 70 km northwest of Aleppo and 24 km west of Killis, in

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. Cyrrhus was the capital of the extensive district of

Cyrrhestica Cyrrhestica ( el, Κυρρηστική) is a district of Greater Syria which appears to have owed its name to the Macedonian occupation of the country. It lies to the east of the plain of Antioch and Amanus, and was bounded on the east by the Eup ...

, between the plain of

Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ� ...

and

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. The site of the city is marked by the ruins at Khoros, 20 km from Azaz, Syria, standing near the Afrin Marsyas River, a tributary of the Orontes, which had been banked up by Bishop Theodoret.

History

The Cyrrhus in Syria was founded by Seleucus Nicator shortly after 300 BC, and was named after the Macedonian city of Cyrrhus.

Andronicus of Cyrrhus Andronicus of Cyrrhus or Andronicus Cyrrhestes ( grc-gre, Ἀνδρόνικος Κυρρήστου, ''Andrónikos Kyrrhēstou''), son of Hermias, was a Greek astronomer best known as the architect of the horologion at Athens called the Tower of t ...

built the

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. It was taken by the Armenian Empire in the 1st century BC, then became Roman when

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took Syria in 64 BC. By the 1st century AD, it had become a Roman administrative, military, and commercial center on the trade route between

and the Euphrates River crossing at Zeugma, and minted its own coinage. It was the base of the Roman legion

Legio X Fretensis Legio X ''Fretensis'' ("Tenth legion of the Strait") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army. It was founded by the young Gaius Octavius (later to become Augustus Caesar) in 41/40 BC to fight during the period of civil war that started the disso ...

. The Sassanid Persian Empire took it several times during the 3rd century. In the 6th century, the city was embellished and fortified by

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. It was however taken by the Muslims in 637 and known at that time under the name of Qorosh and later by the

Crusaders The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were in ...

in the 11th century.

Nur ad-Din Zangi Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. "Light of the Faith" in Arabic), was a member of the Zengid dynasty, which ruled the Syrian province (''Shām'') of the Seljuk Empire. He reig ...

recaptured it in 1150. Muslim travelers of the 13th and 14th century report it both as a large city and as largely in ruins.

Archaeology

The city has been excavated by the Lebanese Syrian Archaeological Mission of Cyrrhus. Initial results indicate a

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layout with Hippodamian grid road plan and a central main road with

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s typical of the

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east . The road layout seems to have survived until into the Islamic times. Remains in Cyrrhus include two Romanbr>Bridge
s in working order, a dilapidated

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outside the town and foundations of a

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and some city fortifications. In the 6th century a

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citadel was built on the top of the hill behind the theatre. with evidence of Greek and Egyptian influences in the design work. This citadel is still largely unexcavated. Temple of Zeus: The exact date of the city's construction is unknown, as it is attributed to the period of the reign of Seleucus Nicator (312 - 280) BC. Given the importance of the city's location, large military forces were stationed there whose subordination to a city is unknown, and perhaps it was independent of itself. Coins were minted during this period and it was also an important center for the worship of the two gods, Athena, the protector of the great land, and Zeus (the god of the thunderbolt). It is believed that the temple of Zeus stood on top of the mountain next to the city. Syros became a frontier city after the separation of Asia Minor from the Seleucid state, following the Treaty of Apamea in 188 BC, which lost its civilian importance and became a center for assembling armies and securing the strong soldiers of the kings of Antioch. In the year 83 BC, controlled by the king of Armenia, Tigran the Great, chaos spread in its area, until the Romans recaptured it in the year 69 BC.

Ecclesiastical history

Cyrrhus became a Christian

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at an early date, a suffragan of

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, capital and

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of the

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. Under

, it became an autocephalous ecclesiastical metropolis subject directly to the

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but without suffragans. Its bishop Syricius was present at the

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in 325. The Arian Abgar (Latinized as Abgarus or Augarus) was at the

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(360).

Theodoret Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus ( grc-gre, Θεοδώρητος Κύρρου; AD 393 – 458/466) was an influential theologian of the School of Antioch, biblical commentator, and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus (423–457). He played a pi ...

mentions as another Arian a bishop called Asterius of the time of the Roman Emperor

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(364–378). Isidorus attended the

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in 381. The most celebrated of the bishops of Cyrrhus is Theodoret himself (423-458), a prolific writer, well known for his rôle in the history of Nestorianism,

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, and

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. He tells us that his small

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(about forty miles square) contained 800 churches, which supposes a very dense population. In 476, a bishop named Ioannes held a synod against Peter the Fuller. At the close of that century the bishop was a

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named Sergius, who was replaced by another of the same name who was of the directly opposite theological opinion, being a Jacobite, and was deposed by Emperor

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in 518. Michael the Syrian lists 13 other Jacobite bishops of the see. A magnificent

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held the relics of Saints Cosmas and Damian, who had suffered

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dom in the vicinity about 283, and whose bodies had been transported to the city, whence it was also called Hagioupolis. Many holy personages, moreover, chiefly

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s, had been or were then living in this territory, among them Saints Acepsimas, Zeumatius, Zebinas, Polychronius,

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(the patron of the

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), Eusebius, Thalassius, Maris, James the Wonder-worker, and others. Bishop Theodoret devoted an entire work to the illustration of their virtues and miracles.

Residential (Arch)Bishops of Cyrrhus

The city was taken in the early 11th century by the Crusaders who made new

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, dependent on Edessa under the name ''Coricié''.

Titular sees

No longer a residential bishopric, Cyrrhus is today listed by the

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as a

,''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 870 in two different rite-specific traditions, in the apostolic succession of the Byzantine archdiocese.

Bishops of Crusader Coricié

Latin titular see

Established no later then as

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of Cyrrhus (Latin) / Cirro (Curiate Italian) / Cyrrhen(sis) (Latin adjective), alias Cyrrhus of the Latins It has been vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, of the fitting Archepiscopal rank with an Episcopal (lowest) exception: * Carolus Polodig,

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(O.C.D.) (1713.12.23 – death 1714.07.07), no actual prelature *Titular Bishop: John Wallace (1720.04.30 – death 1733.06.30) (born

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, UK), Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of

(Scotland) (1720.04.30 – 1727.07.23), Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Lowland District of Scotland (Scotland) (1727.07.23 – 1733.06.30) * Ignazio Nasalli-Ratti (Italian), (1819.12.17 – 1827.06.25), later

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of S. Agnese fuori le mura (1827.09.17 – death 1831.12.02) * Luca de Cigalla (1832.07.27 – 1847.02.12), first while Bishop of Santorini (insular Greece) (1828.12.15 – 1847.02.12 ?not possessed), then as Coadjutor

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of Constantinopole (Ottoman Turkey) (1832.07.27 – 1847.02.12 not possessed) * Loudovico of St. Teresa Martini, O.C.D. (Italian) (1845.09.30 – death 1883.07.12) while Apostolic Vicar of Verapoly (British India) (1844.12.07 – 1855.11.10) and as emeritus; previously Titular Bishop of Europus (1839.06.07 – 1845.09.30) as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Verapoly (1839.06.07 – succession 1844.12.07) * Nikolaus Adames (1883.11.02 – death 1887.02.13) as emeritus: previously Titular Bishop of

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(1863.03.27 – 1870.09.27 as Pro-Vicar Apostolic of Luxembourg (native

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) (1848.05.07 – 1863.03.27) and (promoted) last Vicar Apostolic of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) (1863.03.27 – 1870.09.27); next (see promoted) first Bishop of

(1870.09.27 – retired 1883.09.27) *

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(M.S.C.) (born France) (1888.08.17 – death 1912.01.17) first as

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(insular

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) (1887.05.17 – 1889.05.10), then as Apostolic Vicar of

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(mainland Papua New Guinea) (1889.05.10 – 1908.01) and as emeritus; previously Titular Bishop of

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(1887.05.17 – 1888.08.17) * Ludovít Szmrecsányi (1912.03.26 – 1912.08.20) (born Slovakia) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Archdiocese of Eger (

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) (1912.03.26 – succession 1912.08.20); previously Titular Bishop of Magyddus (1904.11.14 – 1912.03.26) without actual prelature; later Metropolitan Archbishop of above Eger (1912.08.20 –death 1943.01.28) :BIOs to ELABORATE * Joaquim José Vieira (1912.11.08 – 1917.07.08) * Vilmos Batthyány (1920.12.16 – 1923.11.24) * Serafino Cimino,

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(O.F.M.) (1924.12.18 – 1928.05.04) * Gennaro Cosenza (1930.01.02 – 1930.03.20) * Archbishop-elect

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(1930.03.28 – 1930.04.22) (later Cardinal) * Ferdinando Fiandaca (1930.08.01 – 1941.02.18) * Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta (1941.06.14 – 1949.02.25) *

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(O.F.M. Cap.) (1950.08.16 – 1950.10.23) * Eris Norman Michael O’Brien (1951.01.11 – 1953.11.16) *

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(1954.10.10 – 1955.09.20) * Louis Ferrand (1956.04.17 – 1956.10.28) *

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(1956.10.23 – 1959.06.20) *

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(1961.01.16 – 1966.11.22)

Maronite titular see

No later than 1896 was established the

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of Cyrrhus / Cirro (Curiate Italian) / Cyrrhen(sis) Maronitarum (Latin adjective), alias Cyrrhus of the Maronites. In 1956 it was suppressed, having had only these incumbents, both of the fitting Archiepiscopal (intermediate) rank and without actual prelature : * Joseph Estefan (1896.09.24 – death 1915.07.04) * Elia Scedid (1926.06.21 – death 1950.01.18) (born Lebanon).

Gallery

File:NebiHuriTheater.jpg, Theater File:Nebi HuriNorth.jpg, North Cyrrhus File:NebiHuriSouthGate.jpg, South Gate File:NebiHuriMausoleum.jpg, Mausoleum

References

Sources and external links

*
GCatholic - Latin titular see

Archeological excavations at Cyrrhus/Nebi Houri

Cyrrhus/Nabi Huri at cometosyria.com