Ecclesiastical History
The metropolitan see of Naupactus depended on the pope of Rome until 733, when Leo III the Isaurian annexed it to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
The see was attached to the Greek Orthodox Church in 1827. It was suppressed in 1900, replaced by the see of Acarnania and Naupactia, whose seat is at Missolonghi.
Under Frankish rule, there were about 20 archbishops in the 14-15th centuries. The city remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic church.
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