Parlais

Parlais is a former Roman city and Roman Catholic titular see of Pisidia (in Asia Minor), suffragan of Antioch.

History

As a Roman colony it was called Julia Augusta Parlais, and money was coined under this title [Eckhel, "Historica veterum nummorum", III, 33.] . Ptolemy [V, 6, 16.] calls it Paralais and places it in Lycaonia (also in Asia Minor). Kiepert identified it with Barla, in the Ottoman vilayet of Koniah, but W. M. Ramsay ["Asia Minor", 390 sqq.] believes that it is contained in the ruins known as Uzumla Monastir. The "Notitiæ Episcopatuum" mention the see as late as the thirteenth century under the names Parlaos, Paralaos and even Parallos. Four bishops are known: Patricius, at the Council of Constantinople, 381; Libanius, at the Council of Chalcedon, 451 (in the decrees the see is placed in Lycaonia); George, at Constantinople, 692; Anthimus, at Constantinople, 879. Academius who assisted at the First Council of Nicaea, 325, was Bishop of Pappa, not of Parlais as Le Quien claims ["Oriens christianus", I, 1057.] .

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