Lysias was a city and episcopal see in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris I and is now a titular see.Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 918

History The city of Lysias is mentioned by Strabo, XII, 576, Pliny, V, 29, Ptolemy, V, 2, 23, Hierocles, and the Notitiae Episcopatuum.Sophrone Pétridès, "Lysias" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910) It was probably founded by Antiochus III the Great about 200 BC.

Some of its coins are still extant.Phrygia

Lequien (Oriens christianus, I, 845) names three bishops of Lysias, suffragans of Synnada: Theagenes, present at the Council of Sardica, 344 Philip, at Chalcedon 451 Constantine, at Constantinople, 879

Location Ruins of Lysias exist between the villages of Oinan and Aresli in the plain of Oinan, a little northeast of Lake Eğirdir.

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