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Lete

Titular see of Macedonia

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Lete, a titular see of Macedonia, known by its coins and inscriptions, mentioned in Ptolemy (III, xiii), the younger Pliny IV, x, 17, Harpocration, Stephanus Byzantius, and Suidas, and in the Middle Ages in Nicephorus Bryennius (IV, xix). The spelling “Lite” is incorrect and comes from iotacism. Lete appears in some “Notitiae episcopatuum” of a late period as suffragan of Thessalonica, later united to the See of Renting. Lete and Rentina even had Greek bishops until the eighteenth century. Lete is today the small village of Aivati (1000 inhabitants) situated a little north of Salonica.

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