Phasis was an ancient and early medieval city on the eastern Black Sea coast, near modern Poti in Georgia.

After the introduction of Christianity Phasis was the see of a Greek diocese one of whose bishops, Cyrus, became a Patriarch of Alexandria between AD 630 and 641.[1][2]

Titular see

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In 1929, the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin titular archbishopric of the highest (Metropolitan) rank.

It is vacant since decades, having had the following archiepiscopal incumbents:[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ Bury (1889), p. 458-462
  2. ^ Holmes (1905), p. 728-730
  3. ^ "Titular See of Phasis, Georgia".

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