Loryma

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Loryma is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Caria, in Asia Minor (now Anatolia, Asian Turkey).

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Sources and References

• "Loryma". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company. 
• SMITH, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
• Ancient authors:
  • Strabo, XIV, 652
  • Ptolemy, V, 2, 8
  • Titus Livius, XXXVII, 17; XLV, 10

This article incorporates text from the entry Loryma in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.