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Michael Louloudes was the last metropolitan of Ephesus before the Turks conquered the city in October 1304 or 1305. He escaped to Crete. The Turks converted the church of Saint John the Evangelist into a mosque. Despite this, due to its ancient prominence the Greek Orthodox Church hierarchy made extraordinary efforts to keep the see in existence.
The history of archaeological research in Ephesus stretches back to 1863, when British architect John Turtle Wood, sponsored by the British Museum, began to search for the Artemision. In 1869 he discovered the pavement of the temple, but since further expected discoveries were not made the excavations stopped in 1874.
The Church of Mary (Turkish: Meryem Kilisesi) was an ancient Christian cathedral dedicated to the Theotokos ("Mother of God", i.e., the Virgin Mary), located in Ephesus (near present-day Selçuk in Turkey). It is also known as the Church of the Councils because two councils of importance to the history of Early Christianity are assumed to have ...
In the 4th century, the relics of Timothy were transferred from Ephesus to Constantinople and placed in the Church of the Holy Apostles near the tombs of Andrew and Luke. [18] Later on in the 13th century, the relics seem to have been taken to Italy by a count returning from the crusades, and buried around 1239 in the Termoli Cathedral . [ 31 ]
The church's interior would have been covered in frescoes. Hypatius, bishop of Ephesus, was known for advocating the use of icons [7] in the church. After the completion of the church, the interior was covered by icons, representations of saints, and scenes from the Old and New Testaments. [7]
Bishops arrived in Ephesus over a period of several weeks. While waiting for the other bishops to arrive, they engaged in informal discussions characterized as tending to "exasperate rather than heal their differences". [15] The metropolitan of Ephesus, Memnon, was already present with his 52 bishops. Nestorius and his 16 bishops were the first ...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Ephesus is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church [1] [2] [3] (in Latin: Archidioecesis Ephesina). It is the Catholic counterpart of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Ephesus, which is a titular bishopric under Patriarchate of Constantinople (in Greek: Μητρόπολις Εφέσου; Mitrópolis ...
Pergamon became the see of a bishopric under the jurisdiction of the Metropolis of Ephesus. [1] During the 13th century the local bishopric was promoted to a metropolis. However, it soon ceased to exist as a result of the Turkish conquest of the area in the 1310s, the subsequent decline of the local Christian population and the later ...