Editing Myra (section)

=== Bishopric ===
[[File:Mira_divadlo_2_-_panoramio.jpg|thumb|left|Ancient theatre of Myra]]
[[File:Carved theatrical mask Myra (32387362710).jpg|thumb|left|Stone faces in Myra]]
[[File:Coloured reliefs at Myra.jpg|thumb|Coloured reliefs at Myra]]

The ''[[Acta Pauli]]'' probably testify to the existence of a Christian community at Myra in the 2nd century.<ref>Harnack, ''Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums'', 465, 487 (cited by Salaviel)</ref> [[Le Quien]] opens his list of the bishops of this city with [[St. Nicander]], martyred under [[Domitian]] in 95, who, according to the Greek [[Menologion]], was ordained bishop by [[Saint Titus]]. In 325, Lycia again became a [[Roman province]] distinct from that of [[Pamphylia]], with Myra as its capital. Ecclesiastically, it thus became the [[metropolitan see]] of the province. The bishop of Myra at that time was [[Saint Nicholas]]. The 6th-century ''Index'' of [[Theodorus Lector]] is the first document that lists him among the fathers of the [[First Council of Nicaea]] in 325.<ref>[[Heinrich Gelzer]], ''Patrum Nicaenorum nomina'', 67, n. 161 (cited by Salaviel)</ref> Many other bishops of Myra are named in extant documents, including Petrus, the author of theological works in defence of the [[Council of Chalcedon]] quoted by Saint [[Sophronius of Jerusalem]] and by [[Photius]] (''Bibliotheca'', Codex 23). Theodorus and Nicolaus were both at the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] in 787, the former recanting his previous [[Byzantine iconoclasm|iconoclast]] position, the latter being the orthodox bishop whom the iconoclasts had expelled. The ''[[Notitia Episcopatuum]]'' of Pseudo-Epiphanius, composed in about 640 under the [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Heraclius]], reports that Myra at that time had 36 [[suffragan see]]s. The early 10th-century ''Notitia'' attributed to Emperor [[Leo VI the Wise]] lists only 33.<ref>{{Oriens Christianus|volume=1|at=cols. 965–970}}</ref><ref>Sévérien Salaville, [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10661a.htm v. "Myra"] in ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]'', vol. X, New York 1911</ref><ref>Pius Bonifacius Gams, [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''], Leipzig 1931, p.&nbsp;449</ref>

Myra is today listed by the [[Catholic Church]] as a [[titular see]] both in the [[Latin Church]] and as a bishopric of the [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church]] in particular. Latin bishops are no longer appointed to this see, though Melkite bishops are.<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 931</ref>