Diocletianopolis

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Diocletianopolis may refer to a number of places in the ancient world.

  • Diocletianopolis in Palaestina, now a titular see, was in Palaestina Prima. This city is mentioned by Hierocles(Synecdemus, 719, 2), Georgius Cyprius (ed. Gelzer, 1012), and in some Notitiae Episcopatuum, as a suffragan of Caesarea. Its native name is unknown, and its site has not been identified. One bishop is known, Elisaeus, in 359 (Lequien, Oriens Christianus, III, 646).
  • Diocletianopolis in Thracia was a suffragan see of Philippopolis, in Thrace. Its site is unknown. Two bishops are mentioned, Cyriacus in 431, and Epictetus in 451 and 458. A third, Elias, in 553, is doubtful (Lequien, op. cit., I, 1161).
  • Diocletianopolis in Thebaide was a suffragan of Ptolemais in Thebais Secunda (Parthey, Notit. Episc., I). This city also mentioned by Hierocles (op. cit., 732, 3), and by Georgius Cyprius, 772. Gelzer thinks that Diocletianopolis is a later name of Apollinopolis Minor, the Coptic Kos Bebir, and the Arabian Kûs, still existing near Keft (Coptus). (Amélineau, "Géographie de l'Egypte", 490, 573, 576) One bishop of Apollinopolis Minor is known, Pabiscus, mentioned in 431 (Lequien, II, 603).

This article incorporates text from the entry Diocletianopolis in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

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