Editing Side, Turkey (section)

===Ecclesiastical history===

As capital of the [[Roman province]] of [[Pamphylia Prima]], Side was ecclesiastically the [[metropolitan see]]. The earliest known bishop was Epidaurus, presiding at the [[Synod of Ancyra]], 314. Others are John, fourth century; Eustathius, 381; Amphilochius, 426-458, who played an important part in the history of the time; Conon, 536; Peter, 553; John, 680-692; Mark, 879; Theodore, 1027-1028; Anthimus, present at the synod held at Constantinople in 1054; John, then counsellor to the Emperor [[Michael VII Ducas]], presided at a council on the worship of images, 1082; Theodosius and his successor Nicetas, twelfth century. John, present at a synod at Constantinople in 1156. The ''[[Notitiae Episcopatuum]]'' continued to mention Side as a metropolis of Pamphylia until the thirteenth century. It does not appear in the "Notitia" of [[Andronicus III]]. In 1397 the diocese was united with that of [[Antalya|Attalia]]; in 1400 the Metropolitan of [[Perge]] and Attalia was at the same time the administrator of Side.<ref>This section contains text from the [[Catholic Encyclopedia]] of 1907-1912, a work in the public domain</ref>{{Citation needed|date=January 2015|reason=The name of the entry is needed: there is none bearing the title "Side"}}

No longer a residential see, Side is today included in the [[Catholic Church]]'s list of [[titular see]]s.<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 971</ref>