Acrassus
Acrassus or Akrassos was an ancient Roman and Byzantine era city in Lydia(modern Turkey.[1][2][3][4] in the Roman province of Asia and Lydia.[5] [6] It was in the upper valley of the Caicus River.
Acrassus minted its own coin [7]
Bishopric
Acrassus was also the seat of a Bishopric and remains a titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of Sardis. It is named after the ancient city and the current Bishop is Đura Džudžar.[8]
Known Bishops
- Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez Auxiliary Bishop of Verdun (France) June 25, 1896 November 28, 1898
- Leopoldo A. Arcaira Auxiliary Bishop of Zamboanga Auxiliary Bishop of Malolos (Philippines) November 6, 1961 November 23, 1994
- đura džudžar Exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia and Montenegro March 3, 2001
References
- ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae; Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church and Other Works: In Nine Volumes, Volume 3 (Straker, 1843)
- ↑ Antoine Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière, Le grand dictionnaire géographique et critique, Volume 6 (P. Gosse, 1736) p150.
- ↑ Francois Morenas, Historical-portable dictionary of geography sacred ancient & modern; (Desaint & Saillant, rue St. Jean de Beauvais, 1759) p14.
- ↑ m. Bruzen, Greater geographical dictionary, and criticism. Vol 1 (Martiniere, 1737) p61.
- ↑ B. Cher Gruppe, Lydische Antike Stadt: Philadelphia, Sardis, Adramyttion, Thyatira, Tabala, Algiza, Pitanae, Acrassus, Lipara, Blaundos, Apollonis, Tracula (Books Llc (German), 2010) p105
- ↑ Antoine Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière, Le grand dictionnaire géographique et critique, Volume 6 (P. Gosse, 1736) p150.
- ↑ Ancient Coinage of Lydia, Acrasus.
- ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13.942.
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