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{{Short description|Town in the Roman province of Asia}}
'''Caloe''' was a town in the [[Roman province]] of [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]]. It is mentioned as Kaloe or Keloue in 3rd-century inscriptions; as Kalose in [[Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)|Hierocles]]'s ''[[Synecdemos]]'' (660); and as Kalloe, Kaloe, and Kolone in [[Parthey]]'s ''[[Notitiæ episcopatuum]]'', in which it figures from the 6th to the 12fth or 13th century. 

==Description==
Caloe was in the upper valley of the [[Küçük Menderes]] (Kaystros) western [[Turkey]], and is identified with the modern [[Kiraz, İzmir|Kiraz]], Keleş stream, to the southwest of [[Alaşehir]] (ancient Philadelphia). The 10th-century historian [[Leo the Deacon]], who was born in Caloe, describes the village as, "a very beautiful village in Asia, located on the slopes of Mt. Tmolos, near the sources of the river Kaystros, which, after flowing past the Kelbianon region and offering a most pleasant vista to the beholder, empties out into the gulf of Ephesos, that famous and celebrated city, and forms an estuary."

The bishopric of Caloe was a [[suffragan]] of the metropolitan see of [[Ephesus]] and was thus within the Roman province of Asia. [[Le Quien]] was therefore mistaken in supposing that the titular see was named after Lake Koloe in [[Lydia]], near which were the tombs of Lydian kings and the temple of Artemis Koloene.<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03189b.htm Sophrone Pétridès, "Caloe" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (New York 1908)]</ref>

The names of three of its bishops are known because their participation in councils: Aphobius in the [[Council of Ephesus]] of 431; Gregorius in the [[Trullan Council]] of 692; and Theophanes in the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] in 787.<ref>{{Oriens Christianus|volume=1|at=cols. 725–726}}</ref><ref>Pius Bonifacius Gams, [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''], Leipzig 1931, p.&nbsp;444</ref>

No longer a residential bishopric, Caloe is today listed by the [[Catholic Church]] as a [[titular see]].<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 856</ref>

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[[Category:Catholic titular sees in Asia]]
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[[Category:Defunct dioceses of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]]
[[Category:Asia (Roman province)]]