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Euchaita was a bishopric, an autocephalus archbishopric and a metropolis with no subordinate bishoprics in the province of Helenopontos until the middle of the 17th c. The city was also known as a shrine of Saint Theodoros. The see was successively subordinated to the metropolis of Amaseia and the Patriarchate of Constantinople, recorded in the 20th rank as an autοcephalus archbishopric during the 6th c., and in the 50th as a metropolis during the 10th century. In the 14th c. it was handed over, temporarily, to the metropolitans of Apros and Caesarea. |
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