Hierokaisareia
Ancient siteAkhisar, Manisa
38.7975°N · 27.7919°E
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Hierokaisareia is a ancient site in Akhisar, Manisa; Hierocaesarea, whose name derives from the Greek for "sacred" and the Latin for "belonging to Caesar", was a town and bishopric in the late Roman province of Lydia.
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Hierocaesarea, whose name derives from the Greek for "sacred" and the Latin for "belonging to Caesar", was a town and bishopric in the late Roman province of Lydia. Also known as Hierakome and with its metropolitan see at Sardis, it was inhabited in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.
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- The three known bishops are Cosinius, at Chalcedon in 451, Zacharias, at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, and Theodore, at Constantinople in 879-880.
- The town's metropolitan see was Sardis.
- The site was inhabited in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.
- The see continues as a titular bishopric in the Roman Catholic Church, to which nominal bishops are appointed.
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