Trapezopolis () or Trapezoupolis (Τραπεζούπολις) was a city of

ancient Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; ) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid- Ionia ( Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Carians were described by Herodotus as being Anatolian mainlanders ...

, and later in the late

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of Phrygia Pacatiana Prima.

History

At an earlier stage, Trapezopolis was part of Caria, as reported by

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and

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, but by the time of

Socrates of Constantinople Socrates of Constantinople ( 380 – after 439), also known as Socrates Scholasticus (), was a 5th-century Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret. He is the author of a ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' ("Church Hist ...

, Hierocles and the various ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' it belonged to

Phrygia Pacatiana In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , ''Phrygía'') was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. Stories of the heroic age of Greek mythology tell of several legendary Ph ...

. Its site is located near Boli in Asiatic Turkey.

Episcopal seat

The

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of Trapezopolis was 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 Laodicea, the capital and metropolitan seat of the province of Phrygia Pacatiana Prima. It is mentioned as a residential see until the 13th century and is now included in the

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's list of titular seats.

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names six bishops of Trapezopolis: *Hierophilius, prior to 400; *Asclepiades, present at the

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(431); *John, at the

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(451); *Eugenius, at the

Trullan Council The Quinisext Council (; , literally meaning, ''Fifth-Sixth Meeting''), i.e., the Fifth-Sixth Council, often called the Council ''in Trullo'', Trullan Council, or the Penthekte Synod, was a church council held in 692 at Constantinople under Ju ...

(692); *Zacharias, at

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(787); *Leo, at the

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(879).

References

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