Skip to content

Research atlas for early Christianity. Claims are tagged attested, traditional, or disputed. Copyrighted full texts, including CCEL editions, are not included.

council-site

Laodicea on the Lycus

near Denizli, Turkey

37.836, 29.107

Disputed. The canon collection is medieval evidence for a council. The date and the originality of the book-list are debated.

Laodicea on the Lycus, now
Now. A.Savin. FAL · Wikimedia Commons
Laodicea on the Lycus, then
Then. Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

A Phrygian city. A council held here, of uncertain date in the later fourth century, issued disciplinary canons. A biblical list attached to them may be later.

Sources

No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.

Cited notes

  • 363. Synod of Laodicea.

    See Councils page (sources there) · Unverified in the source note

Further reading

Show on the map

Councils here

  • Laodicea (later fourth century, year unknown)

People linked here

DeChurched Atlas — Early Christianity as history, from every source