Caloe was a town in the

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. It is mentioned as Kaloe or Keloue in 3rd-century inscriptions, as Kalose in Hierocles's '' Synecdemos'' (660), and as Kalloe, Kaloe, and Kolone in Parthey's ''

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'', in which it figures from the 6th to the 12fth or 13th century.

Description

Caloe was in the upper valley of the

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(Kaystros) western

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, and is identified with the modern Kiraz, Keleş stream, to the southwest of

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(ancient Philadelphia). The 10th-century historian

Leo the Deacon Leo the Deacon ( el, Λέων ο Διάκονος) (born c. 950) was a Byzantine Greek historian and chronicler. He was born around 950 at Kaloe in Asia Minor, and was educated in Constantinople, where he became a deacon in the imperial palace. Whi ...

, who was born in Caloe, describes the village as, "a very beautiful village in Asia, located on the slopes of Mt. Tmolos, near the sources of the river Kaystros, which, after flowing past the Kelbianon region and offering a most pleasant vista to the beholder, empties out into the gulf of Ephesos, that famous and celebrated city, and forms an estuary." The bishopric of Caloe was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Ephesus and was thus within the Roman province of Asia.

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was therefore mistaken in supposing that the titular see was named after Lake Koloe in Lydia, near which were the tombs of Lydian kings and the temple of Artemis Koloene. The names of three of its bishops are known because their participation in councils: Aphobius in the Council of Ephesus of 431; Gregorius in the

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of 692; and Theophanes in the

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in 787. No longer a residential bishopric, Caloe is today listed by the

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as a

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.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 856

References

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