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287:(also known as Constantine the Philosopher) who went to Crimea to preach the gospel to the Khazars in c. 850. He lists "Goths" as people who read and praised the Christian God "in their own language". Medieval "Gothia" was still far from uniformly Gothic-speaking. Many "Crimean Goths" were Greek speakers and many non-Gothic Byzantine citizens were settled in the region called "Gothia" by the government in Constantinople. The official language of the Principality of Theodoro was Greek, but the Gothic language remained in use in private homes at least until the 18th century ( 321:, with the consent of the Mongols, in 1266. The Genoese during the 14th century came to control much of the southwestern coast of the Crimea. From 1287, Genoese arch-rival Venice also established trading posts on the Black Sea coast. Wedged between the Mongols in the steppe and the Italian powers on the coast, the Crimean Goths became limited to the Crimean hinterland and essentially pass out of the historical record. 264:
at some point between the late 8th and the late 9th century. It was the first diocese established outside the historical boundaries of the Roman Empire (just before the Metropolitanates of Alania and of Rus'). Its existence is documented in a list of Byzantine dioceses in a Paris manuscript, dated to
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confirming the metropolitan's authority "over the Christians dwelling in Caffa, Mankup, Balaclava and Azov" in accordance with custom. In June 1778, Metropolitan Ignatios took the initiative to move the Christians of the khanate into Russia. This move had support within Russia, eventually even from
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managed to maintain their ethnic identity under Turkic rule during the 16th and 17th centuries, and in marginalized form even until the 18th century. The only surviving report of Gothic Christians in the Crimea is that of Joseph-Juste Scaliger who in 1606 claimed that the Goths of Crimea read both
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in the 16th century reported having had a conversation with two Goths in Constantinople, and left a Gothic-Latin glossary with about a hundred Gothic words), but it is unknown for how long the Gothic language survived as liturgical language in the Crimean Gothic church.
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in 451 recognized an expansion of the boundaries of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and of its authority over bishops of dioceses "among the barbarians", which has been variously interpreted as referring either to areas outside the Byzantine Empire or to non-Greeks.
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in 1891. Its continued existence is a matter of doubt, as there are practically no records on it, and it may have been little more than a missionary project with the aim of evangelizing the Khazars, or essentially a diocese
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Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries: The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange: Papers of the Thirty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John's College, University of Oxford, March
995: 142:. The evidence suggests that Theophilus was the bishop of a territorial see in area of Crimea. The bishops of Crimean Gothia were Nicene (whereas most of the Goths were Arians) and were appointed by the 184:. It was he who appointed the successor of Bishop Unila to the seat of ruling bishop over the Archdiocese of the Goths, and acted as the protector and benefactor of the Archdiocese at this period. 172:
The "Archdiocese of the Goths" existed autonomously during the 5th to 9th centuries, but from the 5th century there seems to have been a close relation to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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consecrated Unila (d. 404) as bishop of the Archdiocese of the Goths. John Chrysostomos preached to the Goths with aid of interpreter in the Goths' church in
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came into contact with Christianity from the late 3rd century, and were Christianized in the course of the 4th century.
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Mathisen, Ralph W. (1997). "Barbarian Bishops and the Churches 'in Barbaricis Gentibus' During Late Antiquity".
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from Gothia 787; the Khazars however managed to retake the city in less than a year, and John was imprisoned in
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The first extant medieval record which confirms that the Gothic language was still spoken in "Gothia" is the
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Cyril of Jerusalem, 'Teachings of Catechesis', 16:22 "Theophil, a bishop of the Goths, was present at the
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in 754, but his flock soon expelled him and elected John in his place. John overthrew and expelled the
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in 1395, but Gothia remained nominally independent for another 80 years, until it finally fell to the
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was centered in the Crimea, but it seems to have had dioceses further afield, as far east as the
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Ulfilas, apostle of the Goths: together with an account of the Gothic churches and their decline
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs
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Historical records grow more reliable only in the 13th century, with the emergence of the
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The Crimean Goths themselves were a remnant of the migration-era Gothic population of
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was composed within a generation or so of his death, in the early 9th century.
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in 325. Codex Syriacus ms. nr. 14528, British Museum. Alban Butler, 1838
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the Old and New Testaments "in the letters of Wulfila's alphabet".
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The Metropolitanate of Gothia and Kaphas continued to exist
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for ten years from 1750 to 1760. In 1759, the Ottoman sultan
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mountain, where a memorial to him has been built. John's
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in 1475, the Metropolitanate of Gothia was within the
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Crimean Gothic: Analysis and Etymology of the Corpus
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Archbishop Gedeon resided at Mariampol, a suburb of
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Index

Archdiocese of the Goths
Archdiocese of the Goths and the Northlands
metropolitan diocese
Patriarchate of Constantinople
Middle Ages
Doros
Caspian
Khazars converted to Judaism
Ottoman conquest
Principality of Theodoro
Russian Orthodox Church
Gothic Christianity
Goths
Theophilus
Trinitarian
Arians
First Ecumenical Council
Nicea
Nicene Creed
patriarch of Constantinople
Oium
Roman Crimea
Bosporan Kingdom
Hunnic Empire
Khazaria
John Chrysostomos
Constantinople
Gothic language
Council of Chalcedon
Bosporan Kingdom

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