Diocese of Magnesia

The Diocese of Magnesia was an ancient Bishopric of Early Christianity.

The seat of the bishopric was the town of Magnesia on the Maeander in western Turkey, and HieroclesHierocles p. 659 ranks it among the bishoprics of the province of Asia. Later documents seem to imply that at one time it bore the name of Maeandropolis.Concil. Constantin. iii. p. 666.

Known bishops of Magnesia Saint Charalambos Damas, Bishop of Magnesia at the time of Saint IgnatiusH. Burn-Murdoch, Church, Continuity and Unity. Cambridge University Press (2014), p. 120. Leontius, Bishop of Magnesia, who at the Council of Chalcedon declared that from Timothy to the time of Chalcedon there had been 26 Bishops of EphesisusJohn Esten Cooke, An Essay on the Invalidity of Presbyterian Ordination (the Reporter office, 1829) p46. Macarius, contemporary of St. ChrysostomLe Quien, Oriens Christianus, I, 697, 736. Daphnus fl 431 Leontius at the Robber-Council (449)MacErlean, A. (1910). Magnesia. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved March 8, 2018 from New Advent. Patritius at the synod in Trullo (692) Theophilus at Constantinople (879)

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