Olenus (Achaea)

Map of ancient Achaea (with place names in Greek)

Olenus (Ancient Greek: Ὤλενος - Olenos) was an ancient city in Achaea, Greece. The city, already ruined when Pausanias visited it in the 2nd century AD,[1] was located near the river Peirus, 40 stadia from Dyme and 80 stadia from Patras.[2] Remains of the city were found near the present Kato Achaia.[3]

Olenus is also a former bishopric, founded during the Frankish occupation of the Peloponnese, and present Latin Catholic titular see.

Ecclesiastical history

In 1217 a Latin Diocese of Olenus was established, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Patrae (Patras). The seat of the bishop was the town Andravida.[4] It was suppressed in 1432, losing its territory.

Residential Latin bishops

Titular see of Olena

However at its suppression in 1432, the diocese was immediately transformed into a Latin Catholic Titular bishopric under the name of Olena.

It is vacant since decades, having had the following non-consecutive incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

References

  1. ↑ Pausanias Description of Greece 7.18.1
  2. ↑ Strabo Geographica 8.7
  3. ↑  Smith, William, ed. (1857). "Olenus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 2. London: John Murray. p. 473.
  4. ↑  S. Vailhé (1913). "Olenus". In Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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