Everything about Loryma totally explained
Loryma is a Roman Catholic
titular see in the former
Roman province of
Caria, in
Asia Minor (now
Anatolia, Asian Turkey).
Town
Loryma is small fortified town and harbour on the coast of Caria, formerly in the Ottoman province (
vilayet) of
Smyrna (present Izmir), not far from
Cape Cynossema, at the western extremity of the pensinula known as
Rhodian Chersonesus, opposite to and twenty Roman miles from
Rhodes island.
History
Nothing is known of its ecclesiastical history, but Leake (Asia Minor, 223) mentions its ruins: towers, tombs and ramparts, west of
Port Aplothiki. The
Notitiæ episcopatuum mentions Loryma among the
suffragan sees of the
Metropolitan of Stauropolis (also in Caria) up to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Lequien (
Oriens christianus, I, 915) names three bishops of Loryma: George, present at the
Council of Constantinople in 680, Anthimus at the
Council of Nicæa in 87 and Joseph at the
Council of Constantinople in 879.
Sources and References
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- SMITH, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
- Ancient authors:
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