Stauropolis (diocese)

[3] It was the metropolitan seat of the Roman province of Caria in the civil Diocese of Asia and the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

The Roman Martyrology on May 3 remembers the martyrs Diodorus and Rodopiano, who were condemned to be stoned to Aphrodisias during the Diocletianic Persecution.

In the Notitia Episcopatuum composed during the reign of Emperor Heraclius I (about 640), the seat of Stauropolis is listed at the 20th place in the hierarchical order of metropolitanates under the patriarchate of Constantinople[8] and are attributed 28 dioceses suffragan.

[9] In the Notitia attributed to Emperor Leo VI (early tenth century) Stauropolis fell to 21st place among the metropolitanates of the Patriarchate,[10] and the suffragan dioceses have become 26.

[12] Isaias of Stauropolis attended the Council of Florence (1439) and fled to avoid signing the decree of union.