Hierapolis /ˌhaɪəˈræpəlɪs/ ( Ierapolis) or Hieropolis (Ιερόπολις)W. M. Ramsay, The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia: Being an Essay of the Local History of Phrygia from the Earliest Times to the Turkish Conquest, Vol. 1, Part II (Clarendon Press, 1897), pp. 679–683. was a town of the Phrygian Pentapolis in ancient Phrygia, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times. Its bishop in the late 2nd century AD was Abercius, the subject of a famous inscription.Ken Tully and Pamela D. Johnston (eds.), The Hagiography of Saint Abercius: Introduction, Texts, and Translations (Routledge, 2023), pp. 12–31.
Its site is located near Koçhisar in Asiatic Turkey.
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