[3] Inscriptions uncovered by Keppel place the ancient town near Sirghe on the left (south) side of the Hermos River.
Since there is no evidence of a bishopric of that name, Janin (1931),[1] following Adolf von Harnack,[6] consider "Baris" to be an error for "Bagis", while Pétrirdès (1907), who cites Heinrich Gelzer and C. H. Turner, does not accept that correction.
[2] Other known bishops of Bagis are Chrysapius or Chrysanthus, who was at the Robber Council of Ephesus in 449, Leonides, who was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of Lydia sent in 459 to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian with regard to the murder of Proterius of Alexandria, and Basilius and Clemens, who were at the Council of Constantinople (879),[7] presumably one of them ordained by Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, the other by Photius.
[1][2] Bagis must have disappeared as a residential see during the Turkish-Byzantine wars, perhaps in the 12th century, although it continued to be listed in Notitiae Episcopatuum.
[1] No longer a residential bishopric, Bagis is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.