1. The bishopric see of Oinoynda
Oinoynda was the see of a bishopric subordinated to the Metropolis of Myra in Lycia and to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Although the town’s ancient name Oinoanda continued to be in use during the Byzantine period, the bishopric is usually mentioned with various variations and corruptions of this name: Oinoanda, Onoyrda, Mokondoi.1
The bishopric of Oinoynda appears in the notitiae of the Patriarchate of Constantinople until the 12th century, sometimes in the fourteenth and others in the twentieth position among the bishoprics of the Metropolis of Myra.
2. Bishops of Oinoynda
The first known bishop of Oinoynda was Patrikios who in 381 participated in the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople. The bishopric was represented in three more Ecumenical Councils: in the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680/681 in Constantinople; in the Quinisext Council in 691/692; and in the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787 at Nicaea; as well as at the Council of Constantinople which reinstated the Patriarch Photios (858-867, 877-886) in 879. On the whole, eight of the town’s bishops are known.
1. About the name «bishopric of Mokondoi», see Darrouzès, J. (ed.), Notitiae episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Paris 1981), p. 358.