Remesiana
Remesiana was an ancient Roman city and former bishopric, which remains an Eastern Orthodox and also a Latin Catholic titular see, located around and under the modern city of Bela Palanka in Serbia.
Remesiana was declared an Archaeological Sites of Great Importance in 1987, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.
History
Remesiana was built after the Roman conquest of Moesia, in the area of the town Aiadava. It was on the route of ancient Via Militaris road between Naissus and Serdica in Dacia Mediterranea.Districts
had the following strongholds in the district of Remesiana :Brittura, Subaras, Lamponiana, Stronges, Dalmatas, Primiana, Phrerraria, Topera, Tomes, Cuas, Tzertzenutzas, Stens, Aeadaba, Destreba, Pretzouries, Cumudeba, Deurias, Lutzolo, Rhepordenes, Spelonca, Scumbro, Briparo, Tulcoburgo, Longiana, Lupophantana, Dardapara, Burdomina, Grinciapana, Graecus and Drasimarca.
Localities
- Briparo
Site of the Assembly
One can see in a recently discovered inscription of identical content that these inscriptions were inaugurated in 202. However, that year Septimius Severus returned from the east to Rome and probably passed through Remesiana and on that occasion the inscriptions were inaugurated.
Ecclesiastical History
Remesiana was import enough in the Late Roman province of Dacia Mediterranea to become one of the suffragans of its capital's Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Serdica, in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.It was suppressed circa 500 AD.
Only two residential Suffragan Bishops of Remesiana are historically documented :
- Saint Nicetas of Remesiana, friend of Paulinus of Nola, and to whom Gennadio di Marsiglia dedicated a brief biographical note in De Viris Illustribus, patron saint of Romania, canonized by both Catholic and Orthodox churches
- Diogenianus, participant at the Second Council of Ephesus in 449.
Titular see
Remesiana is also a Roman Catholic titular see since circa 1890, when the diocese as nominally restored as Latin titular bishopric of Remesiana / Remesianen.
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- Joseph-Marie Leray, Sacred Heart Missionaries as first Apostolic Vicar of Gilbert Islands and emeritate
- Federico Melendro Gutiérrez, Jesuits as only Apostolic Vicar of Anqing 安慶 ; later promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of Anqing 安慶
- Francisco Javier Ochoa Ullate, Augustinian Recollects as emeritate; formerly only Apostolic Prefect of Guide 歸德 , promoted only Apostolic Vicar of Guide 歸德 and Titular Bishop of Chusira, again promoted first Bishop of Shangqiu 商邱
- Jacques Louis Marie Joseph Fihey as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Marseille ; later Bishop of the Military Vicariate of the French Armed Forces, restyled Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the French Armed Forces, finally Bishop of Coutances , died 2017
- Sylvester Donovan Ryan as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Los Angeles ; later Bishop of Monterey
- Nicola De Angelis, Sons of the Immaculate Conception as Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto ; later Bishop of Peterborough
- Francis Ronald Reiss as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Detroit and on emeritate.