Dioclea or Dioklea, Dioclia or Dioklia, Diocleia or Diokleia (), was a town of ancient Phrygia, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.

In Hellenic times it had a mint, under its king Elagabalus.

Dioclea (Phrygia)

It was the see of a Christian bishop. Lequien, names only two known bishops of the town. Constantius (fl 431 - 451) and Evander No longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church as well as the Eastern Orthodox Church (for which it is now a metropolitan titular see, with Kallistos Ware as its metropolitan until his death in August 2022).

Dioclea (Phrygia)

Its site is located near Yeşilhisar in Asiatic Turkey.

Dioclea (Phrygia)

References

Populated places in Phrygia

Former populated places in Turkey

Roman towns and cities in Turkey

Populated places of the Byzantine Empire

Catholic titular sees in Asia

History of Afyonkarahisar Province

Hocalar District