 Andronikos], Bishop of Sardis c. 1283, made several attempts at East-West reunification.The Ottoman Turks captured Sardis in 1306; the city was destroyed by Timur in 1402.The Metropolitan of Sardis, who had once ranked sixth in precedence in the Eastern church, continued to hold that rank into the 13th century, long after Sardis had shrunk to a village which was no longer a regional locus of power.