Eudocia ( grc, Εὐδοκία) was a town in
ancient Lycia
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Although William Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' (1854) said that the ''
Synecdemus'' of
Hierocles mentions four towns in
Asia Minor
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called Eudocia (Εὐδοκία), including one in Lycia, other scholars report the ''Synecdemus'' as calling one or more of them Eudocias or Eudoxias.
[ and the name of the Lycian town as it appears in the text of the ''Synecdemus'' as edited by Parthey in 1866 is clearly Eudocias (Εὐδοκιάς), while noting that in some '']Notitiae Episcopatuum The ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' (singular: ''Notitia Episcopatuum'') are official documents that furnish Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church.
In the Roman Church (the -mostly Lat ...
'' the name is given as Eudoxias (Εὐδοξιάς).
Le Quien
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, who mentions no town in Lycia called Eudocia, says that the ''Synecdemus'' called a town in Lycia Eudocias and one in Pamphylia Eudoxias, but that other sources speak of the Pamphylian town also as Eudocias. He sees in the presence in the ''Synecdemus'' both of a Lycian Telmessus
Telmessos or Telmessus ( Hittite: 𒆪𒉿𒆷𒉺𒀸𒊭 ''Kuwalapašša'', Lycian: 𐊗𐊁𐊍𐊁𐊂𐊁𐊛𐊆 ''Telebehi'', grc, Τελμησσός), also Telmissus ( grc, Τελμισσός), later Anastasiopolis ( grc, Αναστ ...
and a Lycian Eudocias and also of a Pamphylian Termessus
Termessos (Greek Τερμησσός ''Termissós'') was a Pisidian city built at an altitude of more than 1000 metres at the south-west side of the mountain Solymos (modern-day Güllük Dağı) in the Taurus Mountains (modern-day Antalya p ...
and a Pamphylian Eudoxias or Eudocias proof that they were all distinct cities. It is curious then that, although, when speaking of Telmessus, he says that it was the Pamphylian Termessus and the Pamphylian Eudocias that for long had the same bishop,
when he speaks of the Lycian Eudocias, he attributes to that see the same bishops that he attributes elsewhere to the Pamphylian Eudocias, calling the two most ancient one either bishops of Telmessus and Eudocias (when speaking of Lycia) or bishops of Termessus and Eudocias (when speaking of Pamphylia). The bishops that he mentions for both towns that he calls Eudocias are Timotheus (at the 431 Council of Ephesus), Zenodotus (at the 451 Council of Ephesus), and Photius or Photinus (at the 787 Second Council of Nicaea
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).
bishopric
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History
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in Lycia called either Eudocias or Eudocia, but mentions both the Lycian Telmessus and the Pamphylian Termessus and Eudocias.[Pius Bonifacius Gams]
''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''
Leipzig 1931, p. 450
The ''Annuario Pontificio
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'' speaks of a no longer residential, and therefore now titular
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, episcopal see in the Roman province
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of Lycia as called Eudocia. It was a suffragan of Myra, the metropolitan see
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and capital of that province. The ''Annuario Pontificio'' states that the town that it calls Eudocia was near Makri, the name that at least by the 9th century was given to the city previously called Telmessus, which is now Fethiye
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History
Fethiye was formerly known as Makri (). ...
, Muğla Province
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, Turkey
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Populated places in ancient Lycia
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