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:''See Archdiocese of the Goths and the Northlands for the 1994 establishment in Sweden.'' The Metropolitanate of Gothia (also ''of Gothia and Caffa'' ; also known as the Eparchy of Gothia, in Russian Готская епархия, or as Metropolitanate of Doros, Доросская митрополия), was a diocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Middle Ages. Established in the 9th century, it was the church of the Crimean Goths and, at least in theory, of all the Christian population of the Khazar Khanate and later the Crimean Khanate. The 9th-century Metropolitanate of Doros was centered in the Crimea, but it seems to have had dioceses further afield, as far east as the Caspian coast, but they were probably short-lived, as the Khazars converted to Judaism. From the 13th century until the Ottoman conquest in 1475, the Metropolitanate of Gothia was within the Principality of Theodoro (known in Greek as Γοτθία ''Gothia''). In 1779, subsequent to the Russian conquest of the Crimea, it was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and disestablished a few years later.〔Demetrius Kiminas, ''The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs'', 2009 (p.19 )〕 ==Early history== The Goths came into contact with Christianity from the late 3rd century, and were Christianized in the course of the 4th century. Theophilus, the first known bishop of the Goths, defended the Trinitarian and Orthodox Christological position against the Arians at the First Ecumenical Council in Nicea 325, and signed the Nicean Confession of Faith. 〔Cyril of Jerusalem, 'Teachings of Catechesis', 16:22 "Theophil, a bishop of the Goths, was present at the Council of Nicea in 325. Codex Syriacus ms. nr. 14528, British Museum. Alban Butler, 1838 (p. 124 ). B. H. Cowper, ''Syriac Miscellanies'', 1861, (preteristarchive.com )〕 Ulfilas, the second-in-succession bishop of the Goths, who created Gothic alphabet and translated the Gothic Bible, according to tradition was consecrated into the bishopric at the Council of Antiochia in 341.〔Herwig Wolfram, Thomas J. Dunlap, ''History of the Goths'', 1998, ( p. 78 ).〕 There was some persecution of Christians under Athanaric during the 370s. The Crimean Goths themselves were a remnant of the migration-era Gothic population of Oium. The Byzantine Metropolitanate, however, was limited to a remnant of the Roman Crimea (the Bosporan Kingdom), consisting only of the southeastern coastal area of the peninsula. The Crimean Goths from about 370 were thus wedged between the Hunnic Empire (and later Khazaria) to the north and the Roman (Byzantine) territory to the southeast. 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. In its disputed 28th Canon, the Council of Chalcedon 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. John Chrysostomos consecrated Unila (d. 404) as bishop of the Archdiocese of the Goths.〔John Jacob Maskov, ''History of the Ancient Germans'', 1738, (pp. 378-384 ).〕 John Chrysostomos preached to the Goths with aid of interpreter in the Goths' church in Constantinople, which had priests, deacons and readers whom were Goths and read, preached and sang in the Gothic language. It was he who appointed the successor of Bishop Unila to the seat of ruling bishop over the Archdiocese of the Goths,〔Charles Archibald Andersson Scott, ''Ulfilas, apostle of the Goths: together with an account of the Gothic churches and their decline'', Cambridge, 1885, p. 154.〕 and acted as the protector and benefactor of the Archdiocese at this period.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metropolitanate of Gothia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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