Myriophytum

Myriophytum is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Thracia Prima, a suffragan of Heraclea. The city is now a port on the Sea of Marmora.

The early history of this city is not known. We find it mentioned for the first time in connection with an earthquake which destroyed it in the year 1063. [Muralt, "Essai de chronologie byzantine", II, 8.] It was visited by John Cantacuzene about 1350. [Hist., III, 76.]

Bishops

As a suffragan of Heraclea we find it, under the title of Peristasis and Myriophytum, mentioned first in a "Notitia episcopatuum" of the end of the fifteenth century. [Heinrich Gelzer, "Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum", 633.] The title of Peristasis existed already in 1170. [Parthey, "Hieroclis Synecdemus", 103.] In the sixteenth century Myriophytum displaced Peristasis, and the diocese took the name of Myriophyturn and Peristasis. [Le Quien, "Oriens christianus", I, 1151.]

The Greek Orthodox diocese became in 1908 an autocephalous metropolitan see.

References

*Drakos, "Thrakika" (in Greek, Athens, 1892), 72-93.

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