Paleopolis, Lydia

Paleopolis, or Palæopolis was a city in ancient Lydia, Asia Minor. It is now the Turkish town of Baliambol. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was in the vilayet (province) of İzmir.

Ecclesiastical History

The history of this city is unknown. In the sixth century AD it is mentioned by Hierocles ("Synecdemus" 660, 4). It is found in the "Notitiæ Episcopatuum" as late as the thirteenth century, among the suffragan sees of Ephesus. Le Quien ("Oriens christianus" I:729) mentions seven bishops of this city known by their presence at the councils: Rhodon at Ephesus, 431; Basilicus at Chalcedon, 451; Eusebius at Constantinople, 536; George at Constantinople, 692; Gregory at Nicæa, 787; Peter at Constaninople, 869; Julian at Constantinople, 879.

It remains the name of a Roman Catholic titular see of Asia Minor, suffragan of the archbishopric of Ephesus.

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* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11418a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article]