Paltus

:"Paltus may also refer to a Russian Kilo class submarine"Paltus is a ruined city and Catholic titular see and suffragan of Seleucia Pieria in the Roman province of Syria Prima. [web cite|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11434b.htm|title=Paltus|work=Catholic Encyclopedia] 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. When the province of Theodorias was made by the Byzantine emperor Justinian, Paltus became a part of it ("Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani", ed. Heinrich 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 the patriarch of Antioch. In the tenth century it still existed and its precise limits are known [Echos 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. The ruins of Paltus may be seen at Belde at the south of Nahr es-Sin or Nahr el-Melek, the ancient Badan.

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