Polybotus

Polybotus is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Phrygia Salutaris, suffragan of Synnada. The see Polybotum is now Bolvadin, Turkey.

This town is mentioned only in the sixth century by Hierocles, "Synecdemus", 677, 10.

Bishops

Le Quien ("Oriens christianus", I, 841) mentions two bishops:

*Strategius, present at the Council of Chalcedon (451);
*St. John, whose feast is celebrated 5 December and who lived under Leo the Isaurian.

At the Council of Nice (787), the see was represented by the priest Gregory.

The earliest Greek "Notitia Episcopatuum" of the seventh century places the see among the suffragans of Synnada, and it is still attached to this metropolis as a titular see by the Curia Romana. But from the ninth century until its disappearance as a residential see, it was a suffragan of Amorium. See the "Basilii Notitia" in Heinrich Gelzer, "Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani" (Leipzig, 1890), 26.

References

*Leake, "Asia Minor", 53;
*William Mitchell Ramsay, "Asia Minor", 232.