Drizipara (or ''Druzipara, Drousipara. Drusipara'') now
(Büyükkarıştıran) in
Lüleburgaz district was a city and a residential
episcopal see in the
Roman province
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of
Europa in the
civil diocese
In the Late Roman Empire, usually dated 284 AD to 602 AD, the regional governance district known as the Roman or civil diocese was made up of a grouping of provinces each headed by a ''Vicarius'', who were the representatives of praet ...
of
Thrace
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. It is now a
titular see
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of the
Catholic Church
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.
History of the town
The Greeks called the city Drizipera, Drousipara/Drusipara, Drizeparos and Drixiparos. By the 9th century, it was called Mesene.
The city was situated, as mentioned by
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importance ...
on the part of the
Via Egnatia
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leading from
Adrianople to
Byzantium.
It contained a
basilica
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dedicated to a
Saint Alexander Saint Alexander may refer to one of several saints including:
*Pope Alexander I (died 115), saint and pope
*See Epipodius and Alexander for Saint Alexander, martyred in Lyon, 178 AD
*Alexander of Rome (died c. 289), Christian martyr
*Alexander of B ...
who suffered
martyr
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dom there under
Maximian. In 591, the
Khagan of the
Avars captured the city. He burned the
church
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* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* C ...
and destroyed the
relics of the martyr. in looting their
silver
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casing.
Sultan Murad I
Murad I ( ota, مراد اول; tr, I. Murad, Murad-ı Hüdavendigâr (nicknamed ''Hüdavendigâr'', from fa, خداوندگار, translit=Khodāvandgār, lit=the devotee of God – meaning "sovereign" in this context); 29 June 1326 – 15 Jun ...
conquered the city in the 14th century. The city was described in 1432
Bertrandon of Broquière and in 1453 the wife of Grand Duke
Loukas Notaras
Loukas Notaras ( el, Λουκᾶς Νοταρᾶς; 5 April 1402 – 3 June 1453) was a Byzantine statesman who served as the last '' megas doux'' or grand Duke (commander-in-chief of the Byzantine navy) and the last '' mesazon'' (chief minister) ...
died there,
In the 16th century Sultan
Bajazet II
Bayezid II ( ota, بايزيد ثانى, Bāyezīd-i s̱ānī, 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512, Turkish: ''II. Bayezid'') was the eldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, B ...
rebuilt a new city,
Büyük Karistiran
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People
Given name
* Büyük Jeddikar (born 1929), Iranian retired footballer
* Büyük Vatankhah (born 1943), Iranian retired footballer
Surname
* Adem Büyük (born 1987), Turkish fo ...
, a few kilometers to the west, which quickly supplanted Drizipara which dwindled.
The site is today occupied by a village called Misinli close to the town of
.
Church history
Drusipara, a titular see in
Thracia Prima
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. Nothing is known of the
ancient history
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of this town, which, was situated on the route from
Adrianople to
Byzantium.
It may be that it was founded in the 4th century as the centre of a
bishopric
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
, which by the 7th century was an autocephalous archdiocese. At first it was a
suffragan of
Heraclia but in the eighth and ninth centuries became an independent archbishopric, which was only suppressed during the
Bulgaria
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n invasions.
The ''
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In the Roman Church (the -mostly Lati ...
'' of
Byzantine Emperior Leo VI the Wise
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(886-912) ranks it 20th among the 49 sees listed; and it appears as 23rd of 51 in that of
John I Tzimiskes (925–976), 14th of 44 in that of
Michael VIII Palaiologos
Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus ( el, Μιχαὴλ Δούκας Ἄγγελος Κομνηνὸς Παλαιολόγος, Mikhaēl Doukas Angelos Komnēnos Palaiologos; 1224 – 11 December 1282) reigned as the co-emperor of the Empire ...
(1223–1282), 12th of 26 in that of
Andronicus III
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, caption = 14th-century miniature. Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek.
, succession = Byzantine emperor
, reign = 24 May 1328 – 15 June 1341
, coronation = ...
(1328–1341). There is no mention of it in a later list, probably of the 16th century, possibly because of having fallen victim to the Turkish conquests. In all these ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' the name of the see appears as Mesene (Misini in modern Greek pronunciation).
The names of only two of the diocesan bishops are recorded: Theodore, who attended the
Second Council of Constantinople
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in 553
AD, and Cyriacus, who attended the
Second Council of Nicaea
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in 787.
From the late 14th century the title has been given to
Latin
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bishops, who initially were not considered to have archiepiscopal rank, but now are. The see was referred to at first as Missine. This became Mysine in the 16th century. The name Drusipara came into use in the 18th century, but was changed to Drizipara in 1930.
Known bishops
*Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Theotonius Amal Ganguly, C.S.C. (1965.07.06 – 1967.11.23)
Drizipara
at catholic-hierarchy.org
* Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Włodzimierz Bronisław Jasiński (1946.12.12 – 1965.04.17)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop Alberto Odorico Timmer (翟宇仁), O.F.M. (1901.07.20 – 1943.04.26)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop Maxime Decelles (1893.01.14 – 1901.05.24)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop Bernard Collier, O.S.B. (1863.09.15 – 1890.11.21)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop-elect José Antonio de la Peña y Navarro (1862.04.07 – 1863.03.19)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. (1831.08.19 – 1861.03.21)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop Gabrijel Palković, O.S.B.M. (1752.08.04 – 1759.02.25)
* Cyriacus, fl 787
* Theodore fl553.
References
;Attribution
*
External links
''Catholic Hierarchy'' page
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Former populated places in Turkey
Geography of ancient Thrace
Kırklareli Province
Former Greek towns in Turkey