Lyrba

Lyrba is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Pamphylia Prima.

History

It is only known by its coins and the mention made of it by Dionysius, Perieg. 858, Ptolemy, V, 5, S, and Hierocles. Its exact situation is not known, nor its history; it may be the modern small town of Seidi Shehir, in the vilayet of Konia. The "Notitiae episcopatuum" mentions Lyrba as an episcopal see, suffragan of the archbishopric of Side up to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend the First Council of Constantinople in 381, and Taurianus at the Council of Ephesus in 431 (Le Quien, "Oriens christianus", I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of Syedra.

The ruins are south-east of Kiesme, alsoin the vilayet of Koniah; there have been found some inscriptions, tombs and the remains of a Byzantine church.

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