Pedachtoë

Pedachtoë or Pedachthoe, also known as Heracleopolis or Herakleioupolis (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλειούπολις), was a town of ancient Pontus, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.^[1] It was assigned to the late Roman province of Armenia Prima,^[2] in which it became the seat of an archbishop. No longer a residential see, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.^[3]

Its site is tentatively located near Akşehir in Asiatic Turkey, though others locate it at Güneykaya, Yıldızeli.^[1][2][4]

In ancient times it contained the sanctuary of Athenogenes of Pedachtoë.

References

1. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 87, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
2. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
3. Catholic Hierarchy
4. Rizos, Efthymios (2017). "The Greek Life and Martyrdom of Athenogenes". Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2024-09-12. This extensive version of the Martyrdom of Athenogenes is the earliest extant textual expression of a cult based at the village of Pedachthoe (modern Güneykaya, in Ottoman times known as Bedohtun) in the mountainous region north of Sebasteia/Sebaste (modern Sivas).

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