Lysias was a city and episcopal see in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris I and is now a titular see.

History

The city of Lysias is mentioned by Strabo, XII, 576, Pliny, V, 29, Ptolemy, V, 2, 23, Hierocles, and the Notitiae Episcopatuum. It was probably founded by Antiochus III the Great about 200 BC.

Lysias, Phrygia

Some of its coins are still extant.

Lysias, Phrygia

Lequien (Oriens christianus, I, 845) names three bishops of Lysias, suffragans of Synnada: Theagenes, present at the Council of Sardica, 344 Philip, at Chalcedon 451 Constantine, at Constantinople, 879

Lysias, Phrygia

Location

Ruins of Lysias exist between the villages of Oinan and Aresli in the plain of Oinan, a little northeast of Lake Eğirdir.

References

Catholic titular sees in Asia

Defunct dioceses of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Geography of Phrygia

Archaeological sites in Turkey