Carallia (Pamphylia)
Carallia (Ancient Greek: Καραλλία) was a city of the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima and is mentioned in the acts of the Council of Ephesus (431).[1] The same form of the name is given in the acts of the Council of Chalcedon (451).[2]
The 6th-century Synecdemus gives the name of this Pamphylian city as Καράλια (Caralia).[3]
William Smith took the Pamphylian Carallia to be identical with the town of Carallis (Κάραλλις, Καράλλεια) in Isauria, which he identified with a place in Turkey called Kereli.[4] The site of the Pamphylian town is supposed to be at Uskeles.[5]
Modern scholars place Carallia near Güney Kalesi in Asiatic Turkey.[6][7]
Bishops
Extant documents give the names of three bishops of the ancient see of Carallia, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Side, the capital of the province:
- Solon was at the Council of Ephesus in 431,
- Marcianus at the Council of Chalcedon in 451,
- Mennas at the Third Council of Constantinople in 680.[8][9]
No longer a residential see, Carallia is today included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[5] Catholic Bishops of the town have been
- Cornelius Bronsveld (1950 - 1953)
- Pierre Khuât-Vañ-Tao(1955 - 1960)
- Louis Joseph Cabana(1960 - 1981)
References
- "Giovanni Domenico Mansi". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
- Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. I, col. 1008
- Gustav Parthey (editor), Hieroclis Synecdemus et Notitiae Graecae Episcopatuum (Berlin 1866), p. 30
- William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1845)
- Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 858]
- Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 65, and directory notes accompanying.
- Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 450
- Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Parigi 1740, Tomo I, coll. 1005-1008
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Carallis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.