Lete

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Lete is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Macedonia.

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Lete is known by its coins and inscriptions, mentioned in Ptolemy (III, xiii), the Pliny the Younger (IV, x, 17), Harpocration, Stephanus Byzantius and Suidas in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages in Nicephorus Bryennius (IV, xix). The spelling "Lite" is incorrect and comes from iotacism.

In its necropolis was found the Derveni papyrus.

Lete appears in some "Notitiæ episcopatuum" of a late period as suffragan of the Archbishopric of Thessalonica, later united to the See of Rentina. Lete and Rentina even had Greek (Orthodox) bishops until the eighteenth century.

Lete became the small village of Aïvati (1000 inhabitants) situated a little north of Salonica.

[edit] Source

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. [1]