[3] so that the city of Diocletianopolis then belonged to the Roman province of Syria Palaestina.
In about 390, it became part of the newly created province of Palestina Prima, which had Caesarea Maritima as capital.
Diocletianopolis was also called Sarafia[4] a name that survives in the present name of Khirbat al-Sharaf or Khirbat al-Ashraf and that Christians seem to have preferred to the official name that recalled the persecuting emperor.
[5] Diocletianopolis was a Christian episcopal see by the mid-4th century,[4] but the only bishop of the see who is known by name is Eliseus, who took part in the Semi-Arian synod of Seleucia in 359.
[6][7] No longer a residential diocese, the bishopric is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.