Caloe, a titular see of Asia Minor, mentioned as Kaloe and Keloue in inscriptions of the third century, Kalose in Hierocles’ “Synecdemos” (660); as Kalloe, Kaloe, and even Kolone in Parthey’s “ Notitiz episcopatuum”, where it figures from the sixth to the twelfth or thirteenth century. Caloe must be identified with the modern village of Kilis, Keles, or Kelas, a nahié in the vilayet of Smyrna, to the southwest of Ala-Shehir (ancient Philadelphia), in the upper valley of the Kutchuk-Mendérés (Caÿstrus). There was in Lydia a Lake Koloe, near which the tombs of the Lydian kings and the temple of Artemis Koloene stood. According to Lequien, the titular see took its name from this locality; but Lequien’s view is inconsistent with the position assigned to Caloe by the “ Notitiz episcopatuum” as a suffragan see of Ephesus.
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