Magydus
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Magydus is a Roman Catholic titular bishopric in the former Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda, suffragan of the archbishopric of Perga.
[edit] History
It was a small town with no notable history, on the coast between Attaleia and Perga, occasionally mentioned by ancient geographers, and on numerous coins of the imperial era. Its site was probably at modern Laara in the Ottoman vilayet of Konia, where there are ruins of a small artificial harbour.
The See of Magydus figures in the "Notitiae episcopatuum" until the twelfth or thirteenth century. Five bishops are known: Aphrodisius, present at the First Nicene Council in 325; Macedo, at the Council of Chalcedon in 451; Conon, at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553; Platon at the Council of Constantinople (680 and 692); Marinus, at the Council of Nicaea in 787.
[edit] Source
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
