Nacoleia

Nacoleia (Nacolia) is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was a metropolitan see, at what is present-day Seyitgazi, Eskişehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey.

History

It was a town of Phrygia Salutaris, taking its name in legend from the nymph Nacola, had no history in antiquity. It was there that Valens defied the usurper Procopius; under Arcadius it was occupied by a garrison of Goths who revolted against the emperor.

Bishops

At first dependent on Synnada, the see became autocephalous between 787 and 862, and metropolitan between 1035 and 1066. Seven of its bishops are known, among them being Constantine, one of the chief supporters of Iconoclasm under Leo the Isaurian, who pretended to abjure his error before the patriarch, St. Germanus, and was condemned as an heresiarch at the Second Council of Nicaea (787).