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METHYMNA

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A titular see in the island of Lesbos. It was once the second city of the
island, and enjoyed great prosperity. In the Peloponnesian War it played an
important rôle (Thucydides, III, ii, 18; vi, 85; vii, 57; Xenophon, Hellen., I,
vi, 14), and in Christian times it similarly distinguished itself in its
resistance to the Turks. The ancient poets praise the excellent wine of Methymna
(Virgil, Georgics, II, 90; Ovid, Ars Am., I, 57; Horace, Sat., II, 8, 50; Odes,
I, 17, 21). Methymna was the birthplace of the poet Arion and probably also of
the historian Myrsilus. For a list of the bishops of Methymna see Le Quien,
"Oriens Christ.", I, 961-64. One of them, Gabriel, in the seventeenth century
united with Rome (Allatius, "De perpetua consensione", II, 7). In 640 it is
mentioned by the "Ecthesis" of pseudo-Epiphanius as an autocephalous
archdiocese, and about 1084 was made a metropolitan see under Alexius I
Comnenus. It has retained this rank in the Orthodox Church, though for Catholics
it is now a mere titular archdiocese. Today it bears the name of Molivo, and
with the places dependent upon it numbers 37,000 inhabitants, of whom 29,000 are
Orthodox Greeks, 9000 Mussulmans, and 40 Catholics. The last named are dependent
on the Diocese of Smyrna. Molivo is a kaza of the sanjak of Metelin in the
vilayet of Rhodes. Situated at the southern extremity of the island of Mitylene,
nearly thirty miles from Metelin and five naval miles from the Asiatic
continent, Molivo occupies a delightful marine site on the slope of a hill
formed of basaltic rocks.


SOURCES

LE QUIEN, Oriens Christ., I, 961-64; GAMS, Series episcoporum, 449; CUINET, La
Turquie d'Asie, I (Paris, 1872), 469.


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Salaville, S. (1911). Methymna. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10243b.htm

MLA citation. Salaville, Sévérien. "Methymna." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10243b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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