Paltus

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Paltus may also refer to a Russian Kilo class submarine

Paltus is a ruined city and Catholic titular see and suffragan of Seleucia Pieria in the Roman province of Syria Prima.^[1]

The town was founded by a colony from Arvad or Aradus (Arrianus, Anab. II, xiii, 17). It is located in Syria by Pliny the Elder (Hist. Natur., V, xviii) and Ptolemy (V, xiv, 2); Strabo (XV, iii, 2; XVI, ii, 12) places it near the river Badan. When the province of Theodorias was made by the Byzantine emperor Justinian, Paltus became a part of it (Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani, ed. Gelzer, 45).

From the sixth century according to the Notitia episcopatuum of Anastasius [Echos d'Orient, X, (1907), 144] it was an autocephalous archdiocese and depended on the patriarch of Antioch. In the tenth century it still existed and its precise limits are known [Echos d'Orient, X (1907), 97].

Le Quien (Oriens christianus, II, 799) mentions five of its bishops:

• Cymatius, friend of St. Athanasius, and Patricius, his successor
• Severus (381)
• Sabbas at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD
• John, exiled by the Monophysites and reinstated by Emperor Justin I in 518.

The ruins of Paltus may be seen at Belde at the south of Nahr es-Sin or Nahr el-Melek, the ancient Badan.

[edit] References

1. ^ Paltus. Catholic Encyclopedia.

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.