It became a Christian
bishopric, a
suffragan at first of the
metropolitan see of
Laodicea in Phrygia, but later, after the division of the Roman province, of the see of
Hierapolis. The names of five of its bishops are recorded in extant documents. Hermelaus or Hermolaus was at the
Council of Ephesus in 431. At the
Council of Chalcedon in 451, Metropolitan Nunechius of Laodicea signed on behalf of Symmachus of Attuda. Stephanus was at the
Trullan Council of 692. Nicetas and Arsenius, presumably of the rival parties of
Patriarch Photius I and
Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, were at the
Council of Constantinople (879). No longer a residential bishopric, Attuda is today listed by the
Catholic Church as a
titular see. ==Notes==