Rumelifeneri, Istanbul
Rumelifeneri | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Rumelifeneri Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 41°14′N 29°07′E / 41.233°N 29.117°E | |
| Country |  Turkey |
| Province | İstanbul Province |
| District | Sarıyer |
| Elevation | 30 m (100 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 2,337 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 34450 |
| Area code | 0212 |
| Licence plate | 34 |
Rumelifeneri (named after the lighthouse Rumeli Feneri) is a town in İstanbul Province, European Turkey and the site of Panium, an Ancient former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.
Geography
Rumelifeneri is in Sarıyer intracity district of Istanbul Province. At 41°14′N 29°07′E / 41.233°N 29.117°E it is a coastal village located at the extreme northwest (i.e., European side) of the Bosphorous Strait. It is a suburb of Istanbul. The distance to Sarıyer is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) and to the center of Greater Istanbul is about 25 kilometres (16 mi). The population of Rumelifeneri is 2,337[1] as of 2010.
History
The village is an old settlement. Its name was Panium in the ancient ages, Fanarraki or Fanarayan during the Byzantine Empire. The lighthouse the symbol of the village, was built by the Republic of Genoa which fought against Republic of Venice in 1352 and colonized the area before Turkish conquest in the Middle Ages. The light house was rebuilt in the 19th century by the Ottoman Empire. There are two ruins in the village which are historically important. The Pompeius column was constructed by the Byzantine Empire and the citadel was built by the Ottoman sultan Murat IV in the 17th century. Another important event which Rumelifeneri was involved was the rebellion of Kabakçı Mustafa.[2]
Ecclesiastical history
Panium, in modern times also called Barbaros,[1] was important enugh in the Roman province of Europa (Roman province) (civil diocese of Thrace) to become a suffragan bishopric of the Archdiocese of Heraclea, in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, dropping from first to third rank among Heraclea’s suffragans according to the Byzantine Empire’s [[Notitiae Episcoporum from the ninth to the fifteenth century.
Several of its bishops are historically documented :
- Andreas, who took part in the synod called in Constantinople by Patriarch Menas in 536 to condemn Severus of Antioch and his supporters, including former patriarch Antimus and Peter of Apamea
- Reginus parttook in the Third Council of Constantinople in 680-681 [3]
- Johannes was at the Council of Nicaea in 787.[4]
- Strategius parttook in the Photian Council of Constantinople in 879-880, which rehabilitated Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.[5]
- Nine more are known only from episcopal seals from the ninth to the twelfth century, including Michael (circa 1000), Paulus (early eleventh), John II (eleventh), Theodorus II (XI-XIIth), Nicephorus (XI-XIIth), Johannes III (XI-XII), Leo(n) (XI-XII) and Constantinus (late XIIth).
- An inscription circa 900 names bishop Theodoros, who undertook restorations.[6]
- Ignatius parttook in the council called by Patriarch Callixtus I of Constantinople in 1351 concerning theological cntroversies involving Barlaam of Seminara, Gregorius Acindinus and Gregorius Palamas.[7]
According to Lequin, the see was promoted after the Ottoman conquest in the fifteenth centry to archdiocese and renamed Phanarion & Neochorion, with recorded incumbents from the sixteenth to the eightteenth centuries.[8]
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Panium (Latin) / Panio (Curiate Italian) / Panitan(us) (Latin adjective).
It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, including an Eastern Catholic :
- Franz Tschann (born Italy) (1936.08.08 – death 1956.10.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Innsbruck–Feldkirch (Austria) (1936.08.08 – retired 1955.10.01) and as emeritate
- Piotr Gołębiewski (1957.06.03 – death 1980.11.02), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Sandomierz (Poland) (1957.06.03 – retired 1968.02.20), then staying on as Apostolic Administrator of Sandomierz (1968.02.20 – 1980.11.02)
- Atanáz Orosz (2011.03.05 – 2015.03.20) as Apostolic Exarch of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary, Byzantine Rite) (2011.03.05 – 2015.03.20); later Apostolic Administrator of the eparchy (diocese) Nyíregyháza of the Hungarians (Hungary) (2015.03.20 – 2015.10.31), (see) promoted first Eparch (Bishop) of Miskolc of the Hungarians (Hungary) (2015.03.20 – ...).
Economy
Rumelifeneri is a fishermen's village. But it is very close to Istanbul, which makes the village a place of seafood restaurants specialized for daily excursion of Istanbul citizens.
See also
References
Sources and external links
- Bibliography - ecclesiastical
- Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, vol. I, coll. 1119-1122
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 427
- Raymond Janin, La hiérarchie ecclésiastique dans le diocèse de Thrace, in Revue des études byzantines, vol. 17, 1959, pp. 146-149
- Jean Darrouzès, Notitiae episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae. Texte critique, introduction et notes, Paris 1981
- Catherine Asdracha, La Thrace orientale et la mer Noire : géographie ecclésiastique et prosopographie (VIIIe-XIIe siècles), in Hélène Ahrweiler (dir.), Géographie historique du monde méditerranéen, Paris 1988, pp. 221-309
- Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit online (PmbZ), Berlin-Boston (2013)