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==Bishopric==
{{Main|Thyatira (titular see)}}
[[file:A dictionary of the Bible.. (1887) (14595164770).jpg|thumb|right|19th-century Thyatira<ref>Schaff, Philip, A dictionary of the Bible(1887).</ref>]]The city was home to a Christian community from the [[early Christianity|apostolic period]]. The community continued until 1922, when the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christian]] population was deported.
[[File:ThyatiraBasilika.jpg|thumb|left|Byzantine basilica of Thatira]]
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]].<ref>[http://www.thyateira.org.uk/archbishop-nikitas/]{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} – Biography at the website of the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain</ref> 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 [[Archbishop|archiepiscopal]] rank, in the [[Roman Catholic Church]]'s list of [[titular see]]s.<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 988</ref>
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