Palaeopolis in Pamphylia

See Paleopolis for namesakes

Palaeopolis (or Palæopolis) in Pamphylia was an Ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor (now Anatolia, Asian Turkey), and is a Catholic episcopal titular see.

History

Palæopolis, at the site of modern Akören (the one in Adana Province's Aladağ district?), was important enough in the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda to become a suffragan bishopric of the capital Perge's Metropolitan Archbishop.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular bishopric of the lowest (episcopal) rank.

It is vacant, having had a single, Eastern Catholic incumbent:

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