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Thyatira

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Thyatira, a city in NT times in N. Lydia; the modern Akhisar, now in W. Turkey. It is one of the ‘Seven Churches’ addressed in Rev. (2: 18–29); here it is upbraided for tolerating a ‘Jezebel’ who teaches Christians ‘to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols’ (2: 20). In the 3rd cent. it was a stronghold of Montanism.

In 1922 the head of the newly-founded Orthodox Exarchate of W. Europe was given the title ‘Metropolitan of Thyatira’ by the Patr. of Constantinople. In 1963 the Exarchate was divided and since 1968 the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox community in Britain has been styled ‘Abp. of Thyatira and Great Britain’.

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Akhisar

Akhisar , city (1990 pop. 74,002), W Turkey. It is in a region where tobacco, cotton, and grapes are grown. The city is noted for its rugs. It is the biblical Thyatira .

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Akhisar, Turkey Pelopia, Thyatira ‘White Castle’ from ak and hisar. It may have been founded by the Lydians during the 6th century bc. It was renamed Thyatira by the Macedonians in 290 bc.

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