Mastaura ( grc, Μάσταυρα) was a town in
ancient Lycia
Lycia ( Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 ''Trm̃mis''; el, Λυκία, ; tr, Likya) was a state or nationality that flourished in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean Sea in what is ...
and is not to be confused with
Mastaura (Caria).
It may have been located at present-day Dereağzı, some 25 km northwest of
Myra,
[ which is therefore not to be confused with Dereağzı, Nazilli or Dereağzı, İncirliova.
Dereağzı had a large domed church made of brick,][ which may have been the cathedral of Mastaura.
]
Bishopric
The bishopric
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
of Mastaura in Lycia is mentioned in ''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 ...
'' of the 7th and 10th centuries as having first rank among the suffragans of the metropolitan see
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of Myra.
No bishop of the see is mentioned by name in extant documents, unless Baanes, who was at the Photian Council of Constantinople (879)
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The result of this council is accepted by some Eastern Orthodox as having the authority of an ecumenical co ...
was bishop not of Mastaura in Asia but of Mastaura in Lycia.
No longer a residential bishopric, Mastaura in Lycia is today listed by the Catholic Church
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as a titular see
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.[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 925]
References
External links
University of Cologne architectural drawing of the church
Populated places in ancient Lycia
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Defunct dioceses of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Kaş District
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