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Was Apollos oracle located in Corinth?

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Was Apollos oracle located in Corinth?

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Apollo was the God of Prophecy and so he had oracles at many of his most important temples. However the most important one is the Oracle at Delphi and this is the one most commonly referred to. See the list below: Oracular shrines of Apollo: At Bassae in the Peloponnese At Clarus, on the west coast of Asia Minor; as at Delphi a holy spring which gave off a pneuma, from which the priests drank. In Corinth, the Oracle of Corinth came from the town of Tenea, from prisoners supposedly taken in the Trojan War. At Khyrse, in Troad, the temple was built for Apollon Smintheus In Delos, there was an oracle to the Delian Apollo, during summer. The Hieron (Sanctuary) of Apollo adjacent to the Sacred Lake, was the place where the god was said to have been born. In Delphi, the Pythia became filled with the pneuma of Apollo, said to come from a spring inside the Adyton. In Didyma, an oracle on the coast of Anatolia, south west of Lydian (Luwian) Sardis, in which priests from the lineage of the Branc

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Corinth had a large temple to Apollo, but the oracle was in Delphi.

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