Vasada (Ancient Greek: Οὐάσαδα, Ouasada) was a city of ancient Lycaonia and later of Isauria, Asia Minor (modern Turkey). It was located a little to the southwest of Laodiceia.[1][2] In the acta of church councils attended by its bishop, the name appears variously as Usada or Ousada (Οὔσαδα) or Aasada (Ἀάσαδα).[3]
Its site is located near Bostandere, Konya Province, Asiatic Turkey.[4][5]
Residential see
[edit]Vasada, identified with the ruins on Mount Kestel Dağ near modern Seydişehir, was important enough in the Roman province of Lycaonia to become a suffragan of the Metropolis of Iconium, under the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
These bishops were historically documented:
- Theodorus, attended the First Council of Nicaea in 325.
- Le Quien counts a bishop Severus, contemporary of Saint Basilius
- Olympius, attended the Council of Chalcedon in 451
- Gorgonius partook in the Council of Constantinople of 536
- Conone participated in the Council in Trullo in 692
- At the Council of Constantinople of 879-880 which rehabilitated Patriarch Photius, Le Quien notes both Nicephorus and Nicolaus, supporters of (and appointed by?) rival Patriarchs Photius viz. Ignatius I.
Catholic titular see
[edit]The diocese was nominally restored in 1929 by the Roman Catholic Church as the titular bishopric of Vasada.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents:
- Joseph James Byrne, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (Irish) (1932.11.29 – 1953.03.25) as last Apostolic Vicar of Kilima-Njaro (Tanzania) (1932.11.29 – 1953.03.25); next (see) renamed and promoted first Bishop of Moshi (Tanzania) (1953.03.25 – 1959.05.15), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Abaradira (1959.05.15 – death 1961.10.20)
- Johann Wember, Congregation of Missionaries of the Holy Family (M.S.F.) (German) (1955.02.18 – death 1980.05.04) as first Apostolic Vicar of Northern Norway (Norway) (1955.02.18 – 1976) and on emeritate; previously last Ecclesiastical Superior of Missionary District of Northern Norway (Norway) (1939.11.17 – 1944.03.10), (see) promoted as the only Apostolic Prefect of Northern Norway (1944.03.10 – 1955.02.18).
Notes
[edit]- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.4.10.
- ^ Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 675.
- ^
Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Vasada". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 65, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
Sources and external links
[edit]- GCatholic
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Vasada". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 451
- Le Quien, Michel (1740). Oriens Christianus, in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus: quo exhibentur ecclesiæ, patriarchæ, cæterique præsules totius Orientis. Tomus primus: tres magnas complectens diœceses Ponti, Asiæ & Thraciæ, Patriarchatui Constantinopolitano subjectas (in Latin). Paris: Ex Typographia Regia. cols. 1075–1078. OCLC 955922585.
- Raymond Janin, lemma 1. 'Basada', in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VI, 1932, col. 1063