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== Ecclesiastical history ==
[[File:Sanctuary of Tindari 02.jpg|thumb|right|Sanctuary of Tindari.]]
[[File:Punta Marinello.jpg|thumb|Lagoon of Tindari included in the [[nature reserve]] of Marinello.]]
* Established in 498 as Diocese of Tindari (Italian) / Tyndaris (Latin) / Tyndaritan(us) (Latin adjective). In the early 7th century Sicily had no [[Metropolitan see]], so although politically part of the [[Byzantine Empire]], all its bishoprics were in the sway of the papal ('Western') [[Patriarchate of Rome]] as (exempt) [[suffragan diocese]]s of Rome. During the conflict on [[Iconoclasm]], [[Byzantine emperor]] [[Leo III the Isaurian]] transferred all Sicily to his capital's [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]] (circa 732); in the 8th or 9th century, the newly created Metropolitan [[Archdiocese of Syracuse]] was given all Sicilian bishoprics as suffragans, including Tindari, where no bishops were recorded since 649.
* Although the [[Notitia Episcopatuum]] under emperor [[Leo VI the Wise|Leo VI]] (early 10th century) still lists Tindari among the suffragans of Syracuse, that probably was just canonical theory, as in 836 Tindari was conquered for Islam by Arabs and nothing is heard from the diocese.
* Formally suppressed in 880 without direct successor, but lost (some) territory in 1082 to establish the short-lived [[Diocese of Troina]] (suppressed in 1098 to establish the [[Diocese of Messina]]). When Sicilia was again conquered and Christianize by the Normans in the 11th century, the bishopric wasn't restored, its territory rather assigned to the new [[Diocese of Patti]].

=== Titular see ===
The diocese was nominally restored in 1968 as Latin [[Titular bishopric]] of Tindari (Curiate Italian) / Tyndaris (Latin) / Tyndaritan(us) (Latin adjective)