Historical place profile
Antiochia / Theoupolis
Antioch on the Orontes was a Seleucid and Roman metropolis, an apostolic mission base and a major patriarchal centre.
Historical layers
- Seleucid foundation
- Roman Syrian metropolis
- Apostolic community and mission to the nations
- Patriarchal school and doctrinal controversies
- Late-antique disasters and changing rule
Church-history significance
Acts records the disciples first being called Christians at Antioch and the mission of Barnabas and Paul. Ignatius and later Antiochene theologians give the city a long ecclesiastical history.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 658381
- Acts 11–15
- Ignatius of Antioch; Antiochene synodal and patristic texts
Map semantics
The coordinate at 36.222551499999994, 36.183214 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:658381
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:658381
- Place type
- amphitheatre, settlement, urban
- Precision
- precise
- Provenance
- Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 C4 Antiochia/Theoupolis