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{{Short description|Ancient city in the Roman province of Europa}}
'''Drizipara''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Δριζιπάρα), also known as '''Druzipara''', '''Drousipara''', '''Drusipara''';<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0agp0mJFG_sC Michel Le Quien, ''Oriens christianus'', cols. 1131–1132]</ref> now [[Büyükkarıştıran]]/Büyükkarıştıran'<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/23354.html|title=Drousipara/Drusipara, Karıştıran – Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire|website=imperium.ahlfeldt.se|language=en|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> in [[Lüleburgaz|Lüleburgaz district]], was a city and a residential [[episcopal see]] in the [[Roman province]] of [[Europa (Roman province)|Europa]] in the [[Roman diocese|civil diocese]] of [[Thrace]]. It is now a [[titular see]] of the [[Catholic Church]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), "Sedi titolari", p.&nbsp;883</ref>

== History of the town ==
The Greeks called the city '''Drizipera''', '''Drousipara'''/'''Drusipara''', '''Drizeparos''' and '''Drixiparos'''.<ref>[https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/1528 Suda, delta, 1528]</ref><ref>[https://topostext.org/work/567#3.1 Pseudo-Epiphanius, Notitia Episcopatuum, 3.1]</ref><ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=drusipara-geo&highlight=drusipara Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Drusipara]</ref> By the 9th century, it was called '''Mesene'''.<ref>[http://booksnow.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca2/4/dictionnairedhis14bauduoft/dictionnairedhis14bauduoft.pdf ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''&#93;, vol. XIV, 1960, coll. 798-799, entry "Drizipara ou Dryzipara"]</ref>

The city was situated, as mentioned by [[Ptolemy]] on the part of the [[Via Egnatia]] leading from [[Adrianople]] to [[Byzantium]]. 
It contained a [[basilica]] dedicated to a [[Alexander of Rome|Saint Alexander]] who suffered [[martyr]]dom there under [[Maximian]].<ref>Acta Sanct., May, III, 15.</ref>  In 591, the [[Khagan]] of the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]] captured the city. He burned the [[church building|church]] and destroyed the [[relic]]s of the martyr.<ref>Theophyl. Simocatta, VII, 14, 15.</ref> in looting their [[silver]] casing. 

[[Sultan]] [[Murad I]] conquered the city in the 14th century. The city was described in 1432 [[Bertrandon of Broquière]] and in 1453 the wife of Grand Duke [[Loukas Notaras]] died there,<ref>Ducas, Hist. Byz., 42.</ref>

In the 16th century Sultan [[Bajazet II]] rebuilt a new city, [[Büyük Karistiran]], a few kilometers to the west, which quickly supplanted Drizipara which dwindled.

The site is today occupied by a village called Misinli close to the town of [[Büyükkarıştıran]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.istanbulguide.net/insolite/info/francais/turquie_occidentale/drusipara.htm|title=Istanbul Guide|website=istanbulguide.net|access-date=2008-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708042148/http://www.istanbulguide.net/insolite/info/francais/turquie_occidentale/drusipara.htm|archive-date=2011-07-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Church history ==
Drusipara, a titular see in [[Thracia Prima]]. Nothing is known of the [[ancient history]] of this town, which,   was situated on the route from [[Adrianople]] to [[Byzantium]].<ref>[[Ptolemy]], III, 11, 7 and Itiner. Anton.,</ref>
It may be that it was founded in the 4th century as the centre of a [[bishopric]], which by the 7th century was an autocephalous archdiocese.  At first it was a [[suffragan]] of [[Heraclea Perinthus|Heraclia]]<ref>Michel Le Quien, ''Oriens christianus'', I, 1131.</ref> but in the eighth and ninth centuries became an independent archbishopric, which was only  suppressed during the [[Bulgaria]]n invasions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/drusipara|title=Drusipara - Catholic Answers|website=www.catholic.com}}</ref>
 
The ''[[Notitiae Episcopatuum|Notitia Episcopatuum]]'' of [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperior]] [[Leo VI the Wise]] (886-912) ranks it 20th among the 49 sees listed; and it appears as 23rd of 51 in that of [[John I Tzimiskes]] (925–976), 14th of 44 in that of [[Michael VIII Palaiologos]] (1223–1282), 12th of 26 in that of [[Andronicus III]] (1328–1341). There is no mention of it in a later list, probably of the 16th century, possibly because of having fallen victim to the Turkish conquests. In all these ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' the name of the see appears as Mesene (Misini in modern Greek pronunciation).

The names of only two of the diocesan bishops are recorded: Theodore, who attended the [[Second Council of Constantinople]] in 553[[Anno Domini|AD]], and Cyriacus, who attended the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] in 787.

From the late 14th century the title has been given to [[Roman Catholic Church|Latin]] bishops, who initially were not considered to have archiepiscopal rank, but now are. The see was referred to at first as Missine. This became Mysine in the 16th century. The name Drusipara came into use in the 18th century,<ref>Cf. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05166a.htm Sophrone Pétridès, "Drusipara"] in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' New York 1909</ref> but was changed to Drizipara in 1930.

===Known bishops===
*Titular Archbishop: Archbishop Theotonius Amal Ganguly, C.S.C. (1965.07.06 – 1967.11.23) <ref>[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0663.htm Drizipara] at GCatholic.org.?</ref><ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2d70.html  Drizipara] at catholic-hierarchy.org</ref>
* Titular Archbishop: Archbishop [[Włodzimierz Jasiński]] (1946.12.12 – 1965.04.17) 
* Titular Bishop: Bishop Alberto Odorico Timmer (翟宇仁), O.F.M. (1901.07.20 – 1943.04.26) 
* Titular Bishop: Bishop [[Maxime Decelles]] (1893.01.14 – 1901.05.24)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop [[Bernard Collier]], O.S.B. (1863.09.15 – 1890.11.21) 
* Titular Bishop: Bishop-elect José Antonio de la Peña y Navarro (1862.04.07 – 1863.03.19)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop [[Clément Bonnand]], M.E.P. (1831.08.19 – 1861.03.21)
* Titular Bishop: Bishop [[Gabrijel Palković]], O.S.B.M. (1752.08.04 – 1759.02.25)
* Cyriacus, [[floruit|fl]] 787
* Theodore fl553.

== References ==
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'''Attribution'''
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==External links==
*[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2d70.html ''Catholic Hierarchy'' page]{{Self-published source|date=July 2015}}

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