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Lysias

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A titular see of Phrygia Salutaris, mentioned by Strabo, XII, 576, Pliny, V, 29, Ptolemy, V, 2, 23, Hierocles, and the “Notitiae episcopatuum”, probably founded by Antiochus the Great about 200 B.C. Some of its coins are still extant. Ramsay (Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, 754) traces its original site from still existing ruins between the villages of Oinan and Aresli in the plain of Oinan, a little northeast of Lake Egerdir, in the vilayet of Konia. Lequien (Oriens christianus, I, 845) names three bishops of Lysias suffragans of Synnada: Theagenes, present at the Council of Sardica, 344; Philip, at Chalcedon 451; and Constantine, at Constantinople, 879.

Source Record

Author
Pétridès, Sophrone
Publication
The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1910.
Nihil Obstat
Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor.
Imprimatur
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.