Paltus
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| Paltus | |
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| 35°16′02″N 35°55′32″E / 35.2672°N 35.9256°E | |
| Location | Syria |
| Region | Latakia Governorate |
Paltus or Paltos (Greek: Πάλτος) is was an ancient city now ruined.
It was a bishopric, a suffragan of Seleucia Pieria in the Roman province of Syria Prima, that, no longer being a residential see, is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[1] The ruins of Paltus may be seen at Belde (Arab al-Mulk) at the south of Nahr al-Sin or Nahr al-Melek, the ancient Badan.
Strabo records a tradition, attributed to Simonides' dithyramb Memnon (one of the Deliaca), that the hero Memnon was buried near Paltus in Syria, on the banks of the river Badas.[2]
The town was founded by a colony from Arvad or Aradus (Arrianus, Anab. II, xiii, 17). It is located in Syria by Pliny the Elder (Hist. Natur., V, xviii) and Ptolemy (V, xiv, 2); Strabo (XV, iii, 2; XVI, ii, 12) places it near the river Badan.
In 43 BC, Gaius Cassius Longinus was encamped at or near Paltus with a large force while blockading the forces of Publius Cornelius Dolabella at Laodicea in Syria.[3]
The Byzantine emperor Justinian I separated Paltus, together with Laodicea in Syria and Gabala, from the province of First Syria and combined them with Balanea to form the new province of Theodorias.[4]
From the sixth century according to the Notitia episcopatuum of Anastasius [Échos d'Orient, X, (1907), 144] it was an autocephalous archdiocese and depended on the patriarch of Antioch. In the tenth century it still existed and its precise limits are known [Échos d'Orient, X (1907), 97].
Le Quien (Oriens christianus, II, 799) mentions five of its bishops:
- Cymatius, friend of St. Athanasius, and Patricius, his successor
- Severus (381)
- Sabbas at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD
- John, exiled by the Monophysites and reinstated by Emperor Justin I in 518.
Canonical status and jurisdiction
Paltus is a titular see of the Catholic Church.[5]
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
A titular see and suffragan of Seleucia Pieria in Syria Prima. The town was founded by a colony from Arvad or Aradus (Arrianus, Anab. II, xiii, 17). It is located in Syria by Pliny (Hist. Natur., V, xviii) and Ptolemy (V, xiv, 2); Strabo (XV, iii, 2; XVI, ii, 12) places it near the river Badan. When the province of Theodorias was made by Justinian, Paltus became a part of it (Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani, ed. Gelzer, 45). From the sixth century according to the "Notitia episcopatuum" of Anastasius [Echos d'Orient, X, (1907), 144] it was an autocephalous archdiocese and depended on Antioch; in the tenth century it still existed and its precise limits are known [Echos d'Orient, X (1907), 97]. Le Quien (Oriens christ., II, 799) mentions five of its bishops: Cymatius, friend of St. Athanasius, and Patricius, his successor; Severus (381); Sabbas at the Council of Chalcedon (451); finally John exiled by the Monophysites and reinstated by Emperor Justin I (518). The ruins of Paltus may be seen at Belde at the south of Nahr es-Sin or Nahr el-Melek, the ancient Badan.
References
- Back to citation Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013; ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 949
- Back to citation Strabo, Geography, 15.3.2
- Back to citation Cicero, Letters to his Friends, Fam.12.13
- Back to citation Malalas, Chronography, 18.448
- Back to citation Wikidata item Q2048453