Carallia (Pamphylia)

Carallia (Ancient Greek: Καραλλία) was a city of the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima and is mentioned in the acts of the Council of Ephesus (431).^[1] The same form of the name is given in the acts of the Council of Chalcedon (451).^[2]

The 6th-century Synecdemus gives the name of this Pamphylian city as Καράλια (Caralia).^[3]

William Smith took the Pamphylian Carallia to be identical with the town of Carallis (Κάραλλις, Καράλλεια) in Isauria, which he identified with a place in Turkey called Kereli.^[4] The site of the Pamphylian town is supposed to be at Uskeles.^[5]

Modern scholars place Carallia near Güney Kalesi in Asiatic Turkey.^[6][7]

Bishops

Extant documents give the names of three bishops of the ancient see of Carallia, a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Side, the capital of the province:

• Solon was at the Council of Ephesus in 431,
• Marcianus at the Council of Chalcedon in 451,
• Mennas at the Third Council of Constantinople in 680.^[8][9]

No longer a residential see, Carallia is today included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.^[5] Catholic Bishops of the town have been

• Cornelius Bronsveld (1950 - 1953)
• Pierre Khuât-Vañ-Tao(1955 - 1960)
• Louis Joseph Cabana(1960 - 1981)