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  3. Ecclesiastical history

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Resafa ({{lang-ar|الرصافة}} [Reṣafa]), also sometimes spelled Rusafa, and known in the Byzantine era as Sergiopolis and briefly as Anastasiopolis, was a city located in the Roman province of Euphratensis, in modern-day Syria. It is an archaeological site situated southwest of the city of Raqqa and the Euphrates.

Procopius describes at length the ramparts and buildings erected there by Justinian.[2] The walls of Resafa, which are still well preserved, are over 1600 feet in length and about 1000 feet in width; round or square towers were erected about every hundred feet; there are also ruins of a church with three apses.

Names

Resafa corresponds to the Akkadian Raṣappa and the Biblical Rezeph (Septuagint; {{lang-grc-koi|Ράφες}}), where it is mentioned in {{bibleverse||Isaiah|37:12|HE}};[3][4] cuneiform sources give Rasaappa, Rasappa, and Rasapi {{CathEncy|wstitle=Sergiopolis}}.[4]

Ptolemy calls it Rhesapha ({{lang-grc-koi|Ρεσαφα}}).[4] In the late Roman Tabula Peutingeriana, it is called Risapa.[5] In the Notitia dignitatum, it is Rosafa.[5]

History

The site dates to the 9th century BC, when a military camp was built by the Assyrians. During Roman times, it was a desert outpost fortified to defend against the Sasanian Empire and a station on the Strata Diocletiana.[6] It flourished as its location on the caravan routes linking Aleppo, Dura-Europos, and Palmyra was ideal. Resafa had no spring or running water, so it depended on large cisterns to capture the winter and spring rains.

Resafa was located in the area of the Roman–Persian Wars, and was therefore a well-defended city that had massive walls that surrounded it without a break. It also had a fortress.

In the 4th century, it became a pilgrimage town for Christians coming to venerate Saint Sergius, a Christian Roman soldier said to have been martyred in Resafa during the Diocletianic Persecution. A church was built to mark his grave, and the city was renamed Sergiopolis. Indeed, it became, after Jerusalem, "most important pilgrimage center in Byzantine Oriens in [the] proto-Byzantine period", with a special appeal to the local Arabs, especially the Ghassanids.[6] By the late 6th century, the Ghassanids’ tribal Arab ally the Bahra’ were tasked with guarding Resafa and it’s shrine from nomadic marauders and the Lakhmids of Mesopotamia.[7]

The city was lost by the Romans in the 7th century when the Arabs won the final victory at the Battle of Yarmouk in the year 636. In the eighth century, the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 724–743) made the city his favoured residence, and built several palaces around it.[8] The city was finally abandoned in the 13th century when the Mongols and Turks invaded the area.

Recent history

In the Syrian Civil War, the town was occupied by ISIS, before being liberated by Government forces on 19 June 2017 during the Southern Raqqa Offensive.[9]

Ecclesiastical history

Sebastopolis's first bishop was appointed shortly after 431 by John of Antioch, in spite of the opposition of the Metropolitan of Hierapolis Bambyce, on whom that church had till then depended. Later, Marianus attended a Council of Antioch.

The metropolis of Sergiopolis with five suffragan sees figures in the Notitia episcopatuum of Antioch in the sixth century. It had obtained this title from Emperor Anastasius I; at the fifth general council (Second Council of Constantinople) in 553, Abraham signed as Metropolitan. The favors of Ariastasius obtained for the city the name of Anastasiopolis, which it still retained at the beginning of the seventh century. Bishop Candidus, at the time of the Sassanian Persian siege of the city by Khosrau I (in 543), ransomed 1,200 captives for two hundred pounds of gold,[10] and, in 1093, Metropolitan Simeon restored the great Basilica ("Échos d'Orient", III, 238); which attests to the continuing existence of Christianity in Rasafa.[11][12]

Titular see(s)

The (arch)diocese of Sergiopolis was nominally restored as a Roman Catholic titular bishopric, initially of the lowest (episcopal) rank, and under the curiate name Sergiopolis antea Resapha (having namesakes see Sergiopolis), and had the following incumbents as such:

  • Titular Bishop Ján Gustíni-Zubrohlavský (1762.05.13 – 1763.11.29)
  • Titular Bishop Eugenio Giovanni Battista Cerina, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1803.09.26 – 1827.05.30)
  • Titular Bishop Adrien-Hyppolyte Languillat (郎懷仁), Jesuits S.J. (1856.05.27 – 1878.11.30)
  • Titular Bishop Gaetano Blandini (1881.05.13 – 1885.02.02)
  • Titular Bishop John Rooney (1886.01.29 – 1927.02.26)

In 1925, it was promoted to titular archbishopric of the highest, Metropolitan rank, and its name was shortened to Sergiopolis. As such, it has had the following incumbents, the first two however still only as titular bishop :

  • Titular Bishop Hector-Raphaël Quilliet (1928.03.23 – 1928.11.26)
  • Titular Bishop François-Marie Kersuzan (1929.02.04 – 1935.07.23)
  • Titular Archbishop Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Boba-Dilla (1935.10.11 – 1937.06.26)
  • Titular Archbishop Basile Khoury (1938.10.15 – 1941.11.21)
  • Titular Archbishop Natale Gabriele Moriondo, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1943.06.01 – 1946.01.03)
  • Titular Archbishop Antonio Taffi (1947.05.14 – 1970.01.06).

References

1. ^
2. ^"De edificiis", II, ix
3. ^{{cite book|last=Wildberger|first=Hans|authorlink=Hans Wildberger|title=Isaiah: Isaiah 28-39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4l_J_GQv9W4C&pg=PA418|publisher=Fortress Press|isbn=978-1-4514-0935-2|pages=410, 418}}
4. ^V, xiv, 19, cited in {{CathEncy|wstitle=Sergiopolis}}
5. ^Catholic Encyclopedia (1907), loc.cit.
6. ^{{cite book|last=Frankfurter|first=David|title=Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3yENB_dXAtwC&pg=PA379|year=1998|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-11127-1|page=379}}
7. ^{{cite book |last1=Shahid |first1=Irfan |title=Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 1|date=2002 |publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=0-88402-284-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfwAG3-rpzcC&pg=PA118&dq=%22Bahra%22+tribe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGvKqP9PTdAhWFq1MKHYaHAr4Q6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=119}}
8. ^{{cite book|last1=Bowersock|first1=Glen|authorlink1=Glen Bowersock|last2=Brown|first2=Peter|authorlink2=Peter Brown (historian)|last3=Grabar|first3=Oleg|authorlink3=Oleg Grabar|title=Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c788wWR_bLwC&pg=PA676|year=1999|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-51173-6|page=676}}
9. ^https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-government-forces-liberate-rusafa-town-southwest-raqqa/
10. ^Procopius, "De bello pers." II, 5, 20
11. ^This section is abridged from {{CathEncy|wstitle=Sergiopolis}}
12. ^E J Brill, First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936, p.1184

Sources and external links

  • GigaCatholic with titular incumbent biography links
{{Commons category|Resafa}}

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