Rhodiopolis is a Catholic titular see

Titular see

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....

. The original diocese was a suffragan of Myra

Myra (titular see)

-History:The Acta Pauli probably testify as to the existence of a Christian community at Myra in the second century). Le Quien opens his list of the bishops of this city with St. Nicander, martyred under Domitian about A.D. 95, and whose feast is celebrated 4 November. As to St...

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It is called Rhodia by Ptolemy

Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...

 (V, 3) and Stephanus Byzantius; Rhodiapolis on its coins and inscriptions; Rhodiopolis by Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...

 (V, 28), who locates it in the mountains to the north of Corydalla.

Its history is unknown. Its ruins are near modern Kumluca

Kumluca

Kumluca is a town and district of Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, part of the Turkish Riviera. Kumluca is located west of the city of Antalya, on the Teke Peninsula,...

. They consist of the remains of an aqueduct

Aqueduct

An aqueduct is a water supply or navigable channel constructed to convey water. In modern engineering, the term is used for any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose....

, a small theatre, a temple of Escalapius, sarcophagi, and churches.

Bishops

Only one bishop is known, Nicholas, present in 518 at a Council of Constantinople

Council of Constantinople

Council of Constantinople can refer to:*Council of Constantinople , a local council*First Council of Constantinople, the Second Ecumenical Council, in 381 or 383.*Synod of Constantinople , a local council which condemned Origen....

. The Notitiæ episcopatuum continue to mention the see as late as the twelfth or thirteenth century.