Arsuz (; ) is a municipality and

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. Its area is 462 km², and its population is 101,233 (2022). It covers the southwestern part of the agglomeration of

İskenderun İskenderun (), historically known as Alexandretta (, ) and Scanderoon, is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 247 km2, and its population is 251,682 (2022). It is on the Mediterranean coas ...

and the adjacent countryside and coast. In ancient times, it was known as Rhosus () and was a former

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and

titular see A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbi ...

Geography

The town center of Arsuz is located South of İskenderun and from

Antakya Antakya (), Turkish form of Antioch, is a municipality and the capital Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is . Prior to the devastating 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, 2023 earthquakes, its population was recorded ...

(administrative center of Hatay Province). While the town center is relatively small near the end of a coastal road leading south from İskenderun, the entire coastal region between İskenderun and the town center is often simply referred as Arsuz. This area is predominantly small rural farms (generally located inland towards the mountains) and small groups of summer homes (generally located near the coastline).

History

Arsuz had many names throughout history, including: Rhosus, Rhossos, Rhossus, Rhopolis, Port Panel/Bonnel, Kabev and Arsous. The earliest documents about it date from the

Seleucid Empire The Seleucid Empire ( ) was a Greek state in West Asia during the Hellenistic period. It was founded in 312 BC by the Macedonian general Seleucus I Nicator, following the division of the Macedonian Empire founded by Alexander the Great ...

, of whose

Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; , ) "Antioch on Daphne"; or "Antioch the Great"; ; ; ; ; ; ; . was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, it served as ...

became the capital. Malalas writes that the city was founded by Cilix, son of Agenor.Malalas, Chronography, Book 8.201
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Harpalus Harpalus (Greek: Ἅρπαλος), son of Machatas, was a Macedonian aristocrat and childhood friend of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. Harpalus was repeatedly entrusted with official duties by Alexander and absconded with large su ...

set up a bronze statue of Glycera at Rhosus.

Demetrius I of Macedon Demetrius I Poliorcetes (; , , ; ) was a Macedonian Greek nobleman and military leader who became king of Asia between 306 and 301 BC, and king of Macedon between 294 and 288 BC. A member of the Antigonid dynasty, he was the son of its founder, ...

moved the statue of the goddess

Tyche Tyche (; Ancient Greek: Τύχη ''Túkhē'', 'Luck', , ; Roman mythology, Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. In Classical Greek mythology, she is the dau ...

from Antigonia to Rhosus. Arsuz was then an important seaport on the Gulf of Issus. In 64 BC, it was annexed by the

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. Under the name Rhosus, it was a city and bishopric (see below) in the late

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Cilicia Secunda Cilicia () is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Cilicia has a population ranging over six million, concentrated mostly at the Cilician plain (). The region inclu ...

, with

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as its capital. It is mentioned by

Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder ( ), was a Roman Empire, Roman author, Natural history, naturalist, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the Roman emperor, emperor Vesp ...

and

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

; and later by Hierocles and

George of Cyprus George of Cyprus (; Latinized as ''Georgius Cyprius'') was a Greek Byzantine geographer of the early seventh century. Nothing is known of his life save that he was a Byzantine Greek born at Lapithos in the island of Cyprus. He is known for his ...

. Some Christians in Rhosus accepted as truth the Docetic ''

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'' and for them in around AD 200

Serapion of Antioch Serapion of Antioch was a Patriarch of Antioch ( Greek: Σεραπίων; 191–211). He is known primarily through his theological writings, although all but a few fragments of his works have perished. His feast day is celebrated on 30 October. ...

composed a treatise condemning the book.

Theodoret Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus (; 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 pivotal role in several 5th-century Byzantine ...

relates the history of the hermit Theodosius of Antioch, founder of a monastery in the mountain near Rhosus, who was forced by the inroads of barbarians to retire to Antioch, where he died and was succeeded by his disciple Romanus, a native of Rhosus; these two religious are honoured by the

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on 5 and 9 February. In 638 the city was incorporated into the

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. In 969 it was taken by the

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, in 1084 by the

Seljuk Turks The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; , ''Saljuqian'',) alternatively spelled as Saljuqids or Seljuk Turks, was an Oghuz Turks, Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate society, Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persi ...

, in 1039 by the

Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Papacy during the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and its surrounding t ...

, in 1296 by the

Egyptian Mamluks The Mamluk Sultanate (), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled medieval Egypt, Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries, with Cairo as its capital. It was ruled by a military c ...

and in 1517 by the

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. Between 1918 and 1938 the town was under

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with the rest of Iskenderun district. In 1938, it became part of the independent

Hatay Republic Hatay State (; ; ), also known informally as the Republic of Hatay (), was a transitional nation that existed from 2 September 1938 to 29 June 1939, being located in the territory of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of the French Mandate of Syria. Th ...

, but in June 1939 the Hatay legislature voted to join Turkey. The district Arsuz was created in 2013 from part of the district of

Composition

There are 38

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in Arsuz District: * Akçalı * Arpaçiftlik * Arpaderesi * Arpagedik * Aşağı Kepirce * Avcılarsuyu * Beyköyü * Çetillik * Derekuyu * Gökmeydan * Gözcüler * Gülcihan * Hacıahmetli * Harlısu * Haymaseki * Helvalı * Hüyük * Işıklı * Kale * Karaağaç Cumhuriyet * Karaağaç Konarlı * Karaağaç Övündük * Karaağaç Şarkkonak * Karagöz * Karahüseyinli * Kışla * Konacık * Kozaklı * Kurtbağı * Madenli * Nardüzü * Nergizlik * Pirinçlik * Tatarlı * Tülek * Üçgüllük * Uluçınar * Yukarıkepirce

Demographics

German traveler

Martin Hartmann Martin Hartmann (9 December 1851, Breslau – 5 December 1918, Berlin) was a German orientalist, who specialized in Islamic studies. In 1875, he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig as a student of Heinrich Leberecht Fleisch ...

listed 31 settlements in the Ottoman

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...

of Arsuz, 10 being

Alawite Alawites () are an Arabs, Arab ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism, a sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ''ghulat'' branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate A ...

(381 houses), 8 being Turkish (205 houses), and 12 without any information. The town of Arsuz (70 houses) was almost wholly Greek Christian with the exception of three Arab and one Turkish families.

Ecclesiastical history

Rhosus was a diocese in the sway of the

Patriarchate of Antioch The Patriarch of Antioch is a traditional title held by the bishop of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey). As the traditional "overseer" (, , from which the word ''bishop'' is derived) of the first gentile Christian community, the position has ...

, originally as a

suffragan A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Catholic Church, a suffragan bishop leads a diocese within an ecclesiastical province other than the principal diocese, the metropolitan archdiocese; the diocese led ...

of its Metropolitan in provincial capital of

, the Archdiocese of Anazarba, as mentioned in the ''

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'' in the 6th century and one dating from about 840. In another of the 10th century Rhosus is included among the 'exempt' sees, directly subject to the Patriarch. Six residential Suffragan bishops of Rhosus are known: * Antipatros, at the

Council of Antioch Beginning with three synods convened between 264 and 269 in the matter of Paul of Samosata, more than thirty councils were held in Antioch in ancient times. Most of these dealt with phases of the Arian and of the Christological controversies. F ...

in 363 * Porphyrius, mentioned in a letter by Saint

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circa 404 * Julian, at the

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, 451 * a little later a bishop (name unknown), who separated from his Metropolitan to approve of the reconciliation effected between John of Antioch and Saint

Cyril of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria (; or ⲡⲓ̀ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲕⲓⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ; 376–444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He was enthroned when the city was at the height of its influence and power within the Roman Empire ...

* Antoninus, at a council of Mopsuestia on the

Three-Chapter Controversy The Three-Chapter Controversy, a phase in the Chalcedonian controversy, was an attempt to reconcile the non-Chalcedonians of Syria and Egypt with Chalcedonian Christianity, following the failure of the '' Henotikon''. The ''Three Chapters'' ( ...

in 550; * Theodore, about 600, mentioned by monk-hagiographer John Moschus.

Titular see

No later than the 15th century the diocese was nominally restored as Latin

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of Rhosus (Latin) / Rosea (until 1925) / Roso (Curiate Italian) / Rhosien(sis) (Latin adjective) It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank: * Egidio von Byderborch,

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(O. Carm.) (1428.11.29 – ?) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Strasbourg (France) (1428.11.29 – ?) * Jean de Montmartin,

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(O.F.M.) (1434.09.01 – death 1436?), no actual prelature * Heinrich Hopfgarten (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24) as

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(Germany) (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24); later Bishop of Risano (1455.11.21 – 1460.03.24) * Daniel o last name?!

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(O.E.S.A.) (1470.12.10 – death 1487?), no actual prelature *

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, appointed titular bishop of Rhosus in 1487, died 1507. * Adrien Aernoult, O. Carm. (1517.09.18 – 1536.11) as Auxiliary Bishop of

Diocese of Cambrai The Archdiocese of Cambrai (; French language, French: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Dou ...

(France) (1517.09.18 – 1536.11) * Miguel de Sanguesa,

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(O. Cist.) (1537.04.20 – 1548) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Spain) (1537.04.20 – 1548); later Bishop of Risano (1537.04.29 – death 1548) * Johann Michael Wenzel von Spaur (1722.04.20 – death 1743.03.28) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Trento (Italy) (1722.04.20 – 1743.03.28) * Mihály Mánuel Olsavszky, Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat (O.S.B.M.) (1743.09.05 – death 1767.11.05) as

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of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians (

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) ( 743.03.121743.09.06 – 1767.11.05) * Claude-François-Ignace Franchet de Rans (1756.04.05 – death 1810.02.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Besançon (France) (1756.04.05 – 1810.02.21) * János Bradács, O.S.B.M. (1768.01.27 – 1771.09.19) as last Vicar Apostolic of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians (Ukraine) (1768.01.27 – 1771.09.19), next promoted as first Bishop of Mukacheve of the Ruthenians (1771.09.19 – death 1772.07.04) * Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres,

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(O.P.) (1807.03.23 – 1815.03.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Antequera (

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) (1807.03.23 – 1815.03.15); later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(

) (1815.03.15 – 1845.11.10) and

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of Diocese of La Habana (

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) (1836.02.24 – 1845.11.10) * Bernard Angus MacEachern (1819.01.12 – 1829.08.11) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Québec (

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) (1819.01.12 – 1829.08.11), later first Bishop of

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(Canada) (1829.08.11 – death 1835.04.23) * François-Auguste-Ferdinand Donnet (1835.04.06 – 1837.05.19) as Coadjutor Bishop of Nancy (France) (1835.04.06 – 1837.05.19); later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(France) (1837.05.19 – death 1882.12.22), created

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of S. Maria in Via (1853.06.27 – 1882.12.22) * Antonio Burbano, O.E.S.A. (1837.05.19 – death 1839?) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(

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) (1837.05.19 – 1839?) * Joannes Bocheński (1850.05.20 – death 1857.01.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians (Byzantine Rite Metropolitanate, Ukraine) (1850.05.20 – 1857.01.25) * Pietro Saulini (1876.06.26 – death 1878.02.28) as Bishop of

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(Italy) (1878.02.28 – 1887) * Emmanuel-Marie-Ange de Briey (1880.02.27 – 1884.08.30) as

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(France) ( 880.02.121880.02.27 – 1884.08.30), next succeeded as Bishop of Meaux (1884.08.30 – death 1909.12.11) * Gennaro Portanova (1883.08.09 – 1885.02.01) as Coadjutor Bishop of

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(Italy) (1883.08.09 – 1885.02.01); later succeeding as Bishop of Ischia (1885.02.01 – 1888.03.16), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Italy) (1888.03.16 – 1908.04.25), created

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(1899.06.22 – 1908.04.25) * Félix-Jules-Xavier Jourdan de la Passardière,

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(C.O.) (1884.10.03 – 1913.03.12) successively as

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(France) (1884.10.03 – 1885), Auxiliary Bishop of

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(France) (1885 – 1887), Auxiliary Bishop of

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(1887 – 1892), Auxiliary Bishop of

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(France) (1892 – retired 1896) and emeritate * Trudo Johannes Jans, O.F.M. (1923.12.13 – 1929.09.09) as last

of Southwestern Hupeh 湖北南境 (China) (1923.12.13 – 1924.12.03), restyled first Apostolic Vicar of

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宜昌 (China) (1924.12.03 – death 1929.09.09) *

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(1929.12.16 – 1934.12.22) as Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara (

) (1929.12.16 – 1934.12.22); later

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of Bizya (1934.12.22 – 1936.02.18) as

Coadjutor Archbishop The term "coadjutor" (literally "co-assister" in Latin) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal order of precedence. These include: * Coadjutor bishop ...

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(Mexico) (1934.12.22 – 1936.02.18), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Guadalajara (Mexico) (1936.02.18 – retired 1969.03.01), created

of S. Onofrio (1958.12.18 – death 1972.05.27), President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.) (1960 – 1963) * Heinrich Ritter,

Holy Ghost Fathers The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (officially the Congregation of the Holy Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary; ) is a religious congregation for men in the Catholic Church. Members are often known as Holy ...

(C.S.Sp.) (born

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) (1935.09.06 – 1942.07.19) as first

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of Territorial Prelature of Jurua (

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) (1935.09.06 – 1942.07.19) * Marc Lacroix,

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(O.M.I.) (1942.12.18 – 1967.07.13) as last

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(

) (1942.12.18 – 1967.07.13); next promoted first Bishop of Churchill (Canada) (1967.07.13 – 1968.01.29), restyled first Bishop of Churchill–Hudson Bay (Canada) (1968.01.29 – 1968.10.25), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Chullu (1968.10.25 – 1970.11.24).

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* ; Bibliography * Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig, 1931, p. 436 * Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris, 1740, Tomo II, coll. 905-908 * Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 1, p. 423 (note 4 on 'Rosensis'); vol. 2, pp. 224–225; vol. 3, p. 287; vol. 5, p. 334; vol. 6, p. 357 {{Former settlements in Turkey Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey History of Hatay Province Populated coastal places in Turkey Populated places in Hatay Province Catholic titular sees in Asia Greek communities in Turkey Districts of Hatay Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey