Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XI, 1953 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Tanagra

By Enrico Josi

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Also known as: Greek: Τάναγρα; Tanagra (Boeotia), Tanagra (titular see), Tanagra in Boeotia

TANAGRA. - Ancient diocese in Boeotia (Greece), suffragan of Corinth. The only known bishop is Hesychius, as appears from a letter signed by him to the emperor Leo, after a provincial Synod of 458 (Le Quien, in Oriens Christianus in 4 patriarchatus digestus, II, Paris 1740, p. 212). It is currently a titular diocese.

L. Duchesne illustrated a mutilated inscription datable to the 5th century in which the deceased places his tomb under the protection of a holy martyr whose name is missing (Inscription chrétienne de T., in Bull. de correspondance hellénique, 3 [1879], pp. 144-46). A second Christian epigraph was found in 1935 and belongs to the end of the 4th century (L. P. Milburn, An early christian epitaph from T., in The Journal of theological Studies, 1950, pp. 176-86).

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 1723.

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Josi, Enrico. “Tanagra.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1723. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/tanagra.

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Josi, Enrico. “Tanagra.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1723. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/tanagra.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Tanagra},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {1723},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/tanagra}
}

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