page_title: Thyatira
section_title: Bishopric
hierarchical_section_title: Thyatira / Bishopric
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ruinen einer Basilika in Thyatira, Akhisar, Westtürkei
context_page_description: Thyateira was the name of an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, now the modern Turkish city of Akhisar. The name is probably Lydian. It lies in the far west of Turkey, south of Istanbul and almost due east of Athens. It is about 50 miles from the Aegean Sea.
context_section_description: The city was home to a Christian community from the apostolic period. The community continued until 1922, when the Orthodox Christian population was deported.
  In 1922, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople appointed an exarch for Western and Central Europe with the title Archbishop of Thyateira. The current Archbishop of Thyateira (since 2019) is Nikitas Lulias. The Archbishop of Thyateira resides in London and has pastoral responsibility for the Greek Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta.
  The see of Thyatira is also included, without archiepiscopal rank, in the Roman Catholic Church's list of titular sees.
caption: Byzantine basilica of Thatira
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