Acarassus, orAkarassos, was a city inancient Lycia. The town, with high probability, was located at the site of today'sElmalı,Antalya Province,Turkey.[1]
Since it was in theRoman province of Lycia, thebishopric of Acarassus was asuffragan of themetropolitan see ofMyra, the province's capital. It is listed in all theNotitiae Episcopatuum from the mid-7th century to about 1300. The name of only one of itsbishops is known with certainty: Nicolaus attended theCouncil of Chalcedon in 451 and was one of the signatories of the letter that the Lycian bishops sent in 458 toByzantine EmperorLeo I the Thracian to protest about the murder ofProterius of Alexandria. Because of the similarity of the names of Acarassus in Lycia and Acrassus inLydia, it is unclear to which of these two sees two other bishops belonged, one of whom was at theSecond Council of Nicaea in 787, the other at thePhotianCouncil of Constantinople (879):Le Quien, Pétridès, and Darrouzès differ in their interpretations.[2][3][4]
No longer a residential bishopric, Acarassus is today listed by theCatholic Church as atitular see.[5]
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