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The ancient city of Caesarea should not be confused with other cities in the ancient and Christian Roman World by the same name.
The name of Caesarea signifies „the "the city of Caesar”. As most Roman emperors adopted the title of Caesar after Gaius Iulius Caesar, the name „Caesarea” "Caesarea” came to be attributed to many different cities and locations in most provinces of the Roman Empire. Many of these cities bear different names at present (or might have had alternate names also in the Roman period itself). Several of these cities are important landmarks in Christian history.
Thus, apart from Caesarea in Palestine, [[w:Caesarea Philippi|Caesarea Philippi]] (Caesarea Paneas) is also mentioned in the [[New Testament]]. [[Caesarea in Cappadocia]] was the see of St. [[Basil the Great]] and, for centuries, the center of a flourishing Christian life. [[w:Antioch, Pisidia|Caesarea Antiochia]], in Pisidia, was an important Christian centre and the scene of several Church councils, until the 8th century, when it was destroyed by Arab raids. These and other cities by the name of Caesarea were also the scene for the martyrdom of several saints in the Orthodox Church.