Euchaita

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Euchaita was a small town ( polisma ) in northern Asia Minor ( Pontus ). Nikephoros Ouranos calls them proasteion. Today the Turkish village, which lies partly on the ruins, Beyözü means. It is located in the province of Çorum.

Here the St. Theodore of Euchaita killed, according to legend a dragon and met the pious Eusebia, the ibid. kept his bones after his martyrdom 303. As early as 400 there were over his grave a church. In the Life of Chrysippus, however, the corresponding city is called Amaseia ( Amasya ). She was charged by Anastasius I to the city and a bishopric. Then there is nothing recorded of the history of the city until 880-890 Emperor Photius his favorite Theodoros Santabarenos rose as Metropolitan of Euchaita. Towards the end of the 10th century became the place of some importance, as Emperor John I. Tzimiskes was here built a church dedicated to St. Theodore. The city's name was changed to it in Theodoropolis.

Church men, saints and writers as the patriarch Peter the Fuller of Antioch ( 469-470, 475-477 and 484-488 ), Patriarch Petros III. Mongo ( 477-489 ), Euphemios ( 489-495 ), Makedonios ( 495-511 ) and Eutychios ( 552-565 ) of Constantinople Opel, Alypios Stylitos and John Moschos Euchaita visited or had been banished to there.

Beginning of the 7th century, the Church of St. Theodore was devastated by the Sassanids. According to legend, they scattered his remains, which is why they have been plagued by earthquakes, diseases and demons, until they hired a priest to collect the relics again. In the reconquest by the Byzantines 622 Euchaita was burned, but eventually built by Bishop Eleutherios again.

Swell

  • Raymond Janin: La géographie ecclésiastique de l'Empire Byzantine 1.3: Le siège de Constantinople et le patriarcat oecuménique: les églises et les Monastères, Paris 1969 ², pp. 148-155.
  • Frank Trombley: The Decline of the seventh- century town: the exception of Euchaita, In: Byzantine Studies in Honor of Milton V. Anastos, ed Spyros Vryonis, Jr., Malibu 1985, p 65-90.
  • Place in the province of Çorum
  • Ancient Pontic city
Theodore of Amasea Chrysippus (disambiguation) Anastasius I Dicorus Pope Peter III of Alexandria Patriarch Macedonius II of Constantinople John Moschus
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