 It was important enough in the late Roman province of Caria (civil Diocese of Asia) to become a bishopric, a suffragan of the archbishopric of Stauropolis , in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.Harpasa appears in the lists of the "Notitiae Episcopatuum" until the 12th or 13th century.Lequien's "Oriens Christianus" I, 907 mentions only four historically documented bishops