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Archdiocese of Hierapolis in Syria

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Map of the Roman Diocese of the East showing Euphratensis and it seat, Hierapolis, in the 4th century

The (arch)diocese of Hierapolis in Syria was the metropolitan bishopric of the ecclesiastical province of the Euphratensis. It was based in the city of Hierapolis in Syria (Arabic Manbij, Syriac Mabbug).[1] It was traditionally the fifth see in dignity under the Patriarch of Antioch.[2] Under the Patriarch Athanasius I in the sixth century, it had nine suffragan bishoprics.[1]

During the Crusades, a Latin archbishop of Hierapolis was established at Dülük.[2] He usually resided in Tell Bashir, as did the Syriac Orthodox bishops in the Crusader period.[3][4] The diocese was set up between 1131 and 1134 by Count Joscelin II of Edessa. It was subject to the Latin Patriarch of Antioch.[2] It had two suffragan sees, Marash and Kesoun.[3] It was effectively lost by 1151.[2]

Bishops

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Greek Orthodox bishops

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Syriac Orthodox bishops

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The following Syriac Orthodox bishops are mentioned in the work of the 12th-century patriarch Michael the Great.[8]

  • Sergius
  • Abram
  • Simon
  • John I
  • Michael
  • Theodore
  • James
  • Timothy
  • Philoxenus I Mathusalah
  • Philoxenus II
  • Ignatius
  • John II
  • Philoxenus III

In 1148, John Bar Andras, bishop of Mabbug, exchanged dioceses with Timothy, bishop of Kesoun, contrary to canon law and was forced to resign.[4]

Latin archbishops

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  • Franco, attached his seal to a document of 1134[9]

Titular bishops:

References

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  1. ^ a b c Siméon Vailhé, "Hierapolis", The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910).
  2. ^ a b c d Bernard Hamilton, The Latin Church in the Crusader States: The Secular Church (Ashgate, 1980), pp. 29, 38, 51.
  3. ^ a b Jean Richard, "The Political and Ecclesiastical Organization of the Crusader States", in Kenneth Meyer Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume V: The Impact of the Crusades on the Near East (Madison, WI: Wisconsin University Press, 1985), pp. 242–243.
  4. ^ a b Amir Harrak, ed., The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI, from the Year 1050 to 1195 AD (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019), pp. 176, 260–262.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus (Paris, 1740), Vol. 2, cols. 925–930.
  6. ^ Patrick T. R. Gray, The Defense of Chalcedon in the East (451–553) (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979), p. 33.
  7. ^ Amir Harrak, ed., The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI, from the Year 1050 to 1195 AD (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019), p. 22.
  8. ^ J.-B. Chabot, "Les évèques jacobites du VIIIe au XIIIe siècle d'après la Chronique de Michel le Syrie (III)", Revue de l'Orient chrétien 6.1 (1901), p. 200.
  9. ^ Bernard Hamilton, "The Growth of the Latin Church of Antioch and the Recruitment of its Clergy", in Krijna Nelly Ciggaar and David Michael Metcalf, eds., East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean: Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest until the End of the Crusader Principality (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2006), p. 175.