Attuda or Attouda ( grc, Ἄττουδα) was a
Hellenistic
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city in
ancient Caria and later in the
Roman province of
Phrygia Pacatiana
In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; grc, Φρυγία, ''Phrygía'' ) was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. After its conquest, it became a region of the great empires ...
. There are coins of the place with the Greek epigraph ''Ἱερὰ Βουλὴ Ἀττουδέων'', of the time of
Augustus and later. The coins show that the
Men Carus was worshipped there.
Its site was at present-day Hisarköy,
Sarayköy District,
Denizli Province,
Turkey.
Bishopric
It became a Christian
bishopric, a
suffragan
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In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
at first of the
metropolitan see of
Laodicea in Phrygia
The Diocese of Laodicea in Phrygia, is an important Titular Christian Diocese, centered on the biblical city of Laodicea on the Lycus in modern Turkey.
The Church at Laodicea was a centre of Christianity from a very early point. The New Testamen ...
, but later, after the division of the Roman province, of the see of
Hierapolis
Hierapolis (; grc, Ἱεράπολις, lit. "Holy City") was originally a Phrygian cult centre of the Anatolian mother goddess of Cybele and later a Greek city. Its location was centred upon the remarkable and copious hot springs in classica ...
.
The names of five of its bishops are recorded in extant documents. Hermelaus or Hermolaus was at the
Council of Ephesus
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in 431. At the
Council of Chalcedon in 451, Metropolitan Nunechius of Laodicea signed on behalf of Symmachus of Attuda. Stephanus was at the
Trullan Council of 692. Nicetas and Arsenius, presumably of the rival parties of
Patriarch Photius I and
Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople
St. Ignatius or Ignatios ( el, Ιγνάτιος), (c. 798 – 23 October 877) was a Patriarch of Constantinople from July 4, 847, to October 23, 858, and from November 23, 867, to his death on October 23, 877. In the Catholic Church and Eas ...
, were at the
Council of Constantinople (879).
No longer a residential bishopric, Attuda is today listed by the
Catholic Church as a
titular see.
[''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 842]
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