Caloe
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Caloe is a Catholic titular see
. Located in Asia Minor
, the original see is mentioned as Kaloe, and Keloue in inscriptions of the third century, Kalose in Hierocles
's Synecdemos (660); as Kalloe, Kaloe, and Kolone in Parthey's Notitiæ episcopatuum, where it figures from the sixth to the twelfth or thirteenth century.
Caloe is identified with the modern Kilis, Keles, Kelas, to the southwest of Alaşehir
(ancient Philadelphia), western Turkey
. It isn in the upper valley of the Kutchuk-Mendérès (Caÿstrus).
There was in Lydia
a Lake Koloe, near which the tombs of Lydian kings and the temple of Artemis Koloene stood. According to Lequien, the titular see took its name from this locality; but his view is inconsistent with the position assigned to Caloe by the Notitiæ episcopatuum as a suffragan see of Ephesus.
Titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....
. Located in Asia Minor
Asia Minor
Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...
, the original see is mentioned as Kaloe, and Keloue in inscriptions of the third century, Kalose in Hierocles
Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)
Hierocles or Hierokles was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the Synecdemus or Synekdemos, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of the cities of each...
's Synecdemos (660); as Kalloe, Kaloe, and Kolone in Parthey's Notitiæ episcopatuum, where it figures from the sixth to the twelfth or thirteenth century.
Caloe is identified with the modern Kilis, Keles, Kelas, to the southwest of Alaşehir
Alasehir
Alaşehir, in Antiquity and the Middle Ages known as Philadelphia , i.e. " brotherly love" is a town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is situated in the valley of the Kuzuçay , at the foot of the Bozdağ...
(ancient Philadelphia), western Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. It isn in the upper valley of the Kutchuk-Mendérès (Caÿstrus).
There was in Lydia
Lydia
Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....
a Lake Koloe, near which the tombs of Lydian kings and the temple of Artemis Koloene stood. According to Lequien, the titular see took its name from this locality; but his view is inconsistent with the position assigned to Caloe by the Notitiæ episcopatuum as a suffragan see of Ephesus.