Pedachtoë or Pedachthoe, also known as Heracleopolis or Herakleioupolis (), was a town of

ancient Pontus Pontus or Pontos (; ,) is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its mountainous hinterland (rising to the Pontic Alps in the ...

, inhabited during

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and

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times. It was assigned to the late Roman province of

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, in which it became the seat of an archbishop. No longer a residential see, it remains a

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of the

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.Catholic Hierarchy
/ref> Its site is tentatively located near

Akşehir Akşehir is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 93,965 (2022). It was known historically as Philomelium. The town is situated at the edge of a fertile plain, on the north ...

in Asiatic Turkey, though others locate it at

Güneykaya, Yıldızeli Güneykaya is a town (''belde'') in the Yıldızeli District, Sivas Province Sivas Province () is a province of Turkey. It is located in the eastern part of the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Its area is 28,164 km2 (the second largest ...

. In ancient times it contained the sanctuary of

Athenogenes of Pedachtoë Athenogenes (, d. 303 CE) or Saint Athenogenes of Pedachtoë was a priest, '' chorepiskopos'' (or "rural bishop"), and Christian martyr of the late 3rd or early 4th century CE, and the leader of a Christian community in the town of Pedacht ...

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