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The metropolitan see of Marcianopolis (today’s Devnya, in Bulgaria) is referenced in six Notitiae episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. However, although Marcianopolis used to be the metropolis of the Roman province of Moesia Secunda until 536, its ecclesiastical province is referred to as ?Haemimontus?, ?Haemimontus II? or even ?Thracia? in Notitiae. Besides, in Notitia 3 there are displayed the paragraphs of two provinces – ?Haemimontus II? and ?Moesia I? – whose sees were located in the territory ...