Editing Xanthos (section)

===Ecclesiastical history===

Xanthus was a [[suffragan]] of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of [[Myra]].{{sfn|Akşit|2006|p=60}}

In the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], Xanthoupolis was a titular diocese under the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]], whose bishop assisted the Metropolitan Province of Smyrna, part of the larger Province of Asia Minor. Its last known bishop was Father Ignatios, later Metropolitan of Libya under the [[Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria|Patriarchate of Alexandria]], who presided over this diocese from 1863 to 1884.{{citation required|date=May 2023}}

In the Catholic Church, the diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as the [[Titular bishopric]] of {{lang|la|Xanthus}}.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Donovan |first1=Ned |title=The bishops who've never seen their dioceses |url=https://catholicherald.co.uk/issues/oct-5th-2018/bishops-whove-never-seen-their-dioceses/ |access-date=15 May 2023 |work=Catholic Herald |date=4 October 2018 |ref=Don |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724230510/https://catholicherald.co.uk/issues/oct-5th-2018/bishops-whove-never-seen-their-dioceses/ |archive-date=24 July 2019}}</ref>