Editing Butrint (section)

=== Residential bishopric ===
[[File:Butrint-Basilica-20071001.jpg|thumb|293px|Remains of the Grand Basilica]]
In the early 6th century, Buthrotum became the seat of a bishopric and new construction included the [[The Butrint baptistry|Buthrotum baptistery]], one of the largest such paleochristian buildings of its type, and a [[basilica]]. The diocese of Buthrotum was initially a [[suffragan]] of the [[Metropolis of Nicopolis]], the metropolitan capital of [[Epirus Vetus]] and in the papal sway, but in the 9th and 10th centuries it is listed with the suffragans of [[Metropolis of Naupaktos|Naupaktos]], which succeeded ruined Nicopolis as provincial capital and metropolis of the new Byzantine [[theme (Byzantine district)|theme]] of [[Nicopolis (theme)|Nicopolis]],<ref>Heinrich Gelzer, [https://archive.org/stream/abhandlungenbay06klasgoog#page/n596/mode/1up ''Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum''], in: Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der [[Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften]], 1901, p. 557, nº 564.</ref> bringing it in the sway of the Byzantine [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]]. After the 14th century, it was under the jurisdiction of the [[Metropolis of Ioannina]].
 
Two of its Byzantine (pre-Eastern Schism) bishops are mentioned in extant documents: 
* Stephanus signed the joint letter of the bishops of [[Epirus Vetus]] to Emperor [[Leo I the Thracian]] in the aftermath of the killing of Patriarch [[Proterius of Alexandria]] in 458
* Matthaeus signed the synodal letter of the bishops of the province to [[Pope Hormisdas]] in 516 concerning the ordination of Metropolitan John of Nicopolis.<ref>Pius Bonifacius Gams, [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae''], Leipzig 1931, p.&nbsp;430</ref><ref>Michel Lequien, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_86weAemI-e4C ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus''], Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 139-142</ref><ref>Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', [http://sul-derivatives.stanford.edu/derivative?CSNID=00002716&mediaType=application/pdf vol. 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709140633/http://sul-derivatives.stanford.edu/derivative?CSNID=00002716&mediaType=application%2Fpdf |date=2019-07-09 }}, p.&nbsp;143</ref> It became a [[Latin Church]] see under Angevin and Venetian rule.