Lyrba is a Roman Catholic titular see

Titular see

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....

 in the former Roman province

Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and, until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of Italy...

 of Pamphylia Prima.

History

It is only known by its coins and the mention made of it by Dionysius

Dionysius Periegetes

Dionysius Periegetes was the author of a description of the habitable world in Greek hexameter verse written in a terse and elegant style...

, Perieg. 858, Ptolemy

Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...

, V, 5, S, and Hierocles

Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)

Hierocles or Hierokles was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the Synecdemus or Synekdemos, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of the cities of each...

. Its exact situation is not known, nor its history; it may be the modern small town of Seidi Shehir, in the vilayet of Konia.

The Notitiae episcopatuum

Notitiae Episcopatuum

The Notitiae Episcopatuum are official documents that furnish Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church....

mentions Lyrba as an episcopal see, suffragan of the archbishopric of Side up to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend the First Council of Constantinople

First Council of Constantinople

The First Council of Constantinople is recognized as the Second Ecumenical Council by the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox, the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholics, the Old Catholics, and a number of other Western Christian groups. It was the first Ecumenical Council held in...

 in 381, and Taurianus at the First Council of Ephesus in 431 (Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of Syedra.

Source

The ruins are south-east of Kiesme, also in the vilayet of Koniah; there have been found some inscriptions, tombs and the remains of a Byzantine church.