Orcistus
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Orcistus is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Galatia Secunda.
[edit] History
It is only mentioned in Peutinger's Table. An inscription of 331 fixes the site at the modern Turkish Alikel Yaila, also called Alekian, in the Ottoman vilayet of Angora. It was then a station at the intersection of four roads and formed part of the "Diocese of Asia"; consequently it must have belonged to Phrygia. In 451 it was in Galatia Secunda or Galatia Salutaris, probably from the formation of that province about 386-95.
The name comes from a tribe called Orei, which dwelt in the plains on the eastern frontier of Phrygia.
Only three bishops are known: Domnus, at the Council of Ephesus in 451, Longinus, at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and Segermas, at a Council of Constantinople in 692. But the see is mentioned by the "Notitiæ episcopatuum" until the thirteenth century among the suffragans of Pessinus.
[edit] Source
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia, so may be out of date, or reflect the point of view of the Catholic Church as of 1913. It should be edited to reflect broader and more recent perspectives. [1]
