Polybotus or Polybotos ( el, Πολύβοτος) was a city in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris. Its site is located southwest of
Bolvadin
Bolvadin (Ancient Greek: Πολύβοτον/Πολύβοτος and Latin: ''Polybotum''/''Polybotus'') is a city of Afyonkarahisar Province in Turkey. It is the seat of Bolvadin District.Asiatic Turkey.
History
This town is mentioned in the 6th century by Hierocles in his ''
Synecdemus
The ''Synecdemus'' or ''Synekdemos'' ( el, Συνέκδημος) is a geographic text, attributed to Hierocles, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of their cities. The work is dated to the reign o ...
''. It is also prominent in the ''
Alexiad
The ''Alexiad'' ( el, Ἀλεξιάς, Alexias) is a medieval historical and biographical text written around the year 1148, by the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. It was written in a form of artificial ...
suffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
of
Synnada
Synnada ( gr, τὰ Σύνναδα) was an ancient town of Phrygia Salutaris in Asia Minor. Its site is now occupied by the modern Turkish town of Şuhut, in Afyonkarahisar Province.
Situation
Synnada was situated in the south-eastern part of ...
until the 9th century, when it became a suffragan of Amorium, which had become a metropolitan see.
Le Quien mentions two bishops:
*Strategius, present at the Council of Chalcedon (451);
*St. John the Thaumaturgus, whose feast is celebrated on 5 December and who lived under Leo the Isaurian.
At the Second Council of Nicaea (787), the see was represented by the priest Gregory.
The earliest Greek '' Notitia Episcopatuum'' of the 7th century places the see among the suffragans of Synnada. But from the 9th century until its disappearance as a residential see, it was a suffragan of Amorium.
The bishopric is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.