Ruins of the Basilica of Thyatira.

Bishopric of Thyatira (Italian: Tiatira) is a titular see of the Catholic Church centered on the ancient Roman city of Thyatira in Asia Minor.

The bishopric of Thyatira stretched back to very early Christianity. Christianity came to the region in the mid 1st century with Paul the Apostle on his Third missionary journey[1] around 54AD,[2] when he stayed for three years in nearby Ephesus. Timothy, Onesimus and John[3] were all active in the area and The Christian community here was addressed by letter of John as it is one of the Seven churches of Revelation.

The diocese was in the ecclesiastical province of Sardis.

By the 3rd century, almost the entire town was Christian in religion but a stronghold of the Montanist sect.[4]

Known bishops

Ancient bishops of Thyatira
Name Position From To
*Carpus[5][6] c.155 c. 165[7]
Serras c.258[8]
Sarapas[9] Attended first Council of Nicaea fl.325
Phoscus[10] attended Council of Chalcedon fl 451
Esaias a presbyter.[11] attended Second Council of Nicaea fl787
Titular Bishops of Thyatira
Name Position From To
Pantaleon Bruns OSB Auxiliary Bishop in Paderborn, Holy Roman Empire 20 Jan 1721

[13]

 15 December 1727[14][15]
Stephanus Ladislaus Luzenszky 7 September 1729[16][17] 1734[18]
Bartolomeo Gradenigo Coadjutor archbishop of Udine, Republic of Venice 24 August 1734 13 March 1762[19][20]
Thomas Johann Kaspar von Thun und Hohenstein Auxiliary Bishop in Passau, Holy Roman Empire 16 December 1776 4 November 1795
Jacobus Ludovicus O'Donnell OFM Apostolic Vicar of Newfoundland 5 January 1796 1 April 1811
Unknown Greek bishop in 1810[21]
Giuseppe del Prete Belmonte 28 September 1855
Charles Menzies Gordon SJ Apostolic Vicar of Jamaica 28 May 1889 16 November 1911
Peter Joseph Lausberg Auxiliary Bishop in Cologne, Germany 1 May 1914 30 August 1922
Kazimieras Mikalojus Michalkiewicz Auxiliary Bishop in Vilnius, Lithuania 13 January 1923 16 February 1940
Heinrich Metzroth Auxiliary Bishop in Trier, Germany 12 May 1941 19 January 1951
Imre Szabó Auxiliary Bishop in Esztergom, Hungary 11 March 1951 21 May 1976
Thomas Victor Dolinay Auxiliary Bishop in Passaic, USA 28 June 1976 3 December 1981
Myron Michael Daciuk OSBM Auxiliary Bishop in Winnipeg, Canada 24 June 1982 28 October 1991

List of archbishops of Thyateira and Great Britain

  • Germanos Strenopoulos (1922—1951)
  • Athenagoras Kavadas (1951—1962)
  • Athenagoras Kokkinakis (1963—1979)
  • Methodios Fouyias (1979—1988)
  • Gregorios Theocharous (from 1988)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Acts of the Apostles:19–21.
  2. ↑ Apostle Paul's Third Missionary Journey Map (53-58 AD)
  3. ↑ Zahn, T. "John the Apostle", in Schaff, Philip. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. VI: Innocents – Liudger, p.203
  4. ↑ Epiphaninius Adv Haer LI 33.
  5. ↑ Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press (2011) p.78 & 79.
  6. ↑ Acts of Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice.
  7. ↑ Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, 4.15.
  8. ↑ Robert Eden, p 347. The perpetual government of Christ's church: A new edition, with a biographicale notice, (University Press, 1842) p347.
  9. ↑ Patrum Nicaenorum nomina p13.
  10. ↑ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p 336.
  11. ↑ John Gill, An Exposition of the Revelation of S. John the Divine, both doctrinal and practical. (George Keith, 1776 ) p31.
  12. Le Quein gives a different list (1)John, (2)Carpus (3) Sozon, (4)Fuscus, (5)Diamonis (6)unknown (6)Basil.
  13. ↑ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1721, Number 10.
  14. ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 153, Additions/Corrections
  15. ↑ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 379.
  16. ↑ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 432.
  17. ↑ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1730, Number 10.
  18. ↑ Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1734, Number 24.
  19. ↑ Annuario Pontificio, Year 1764
  20. ↑ Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 94, and Page 406.
  21. ↑ The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (H. Colburn, 1820) p 454.
  • "Thyatira". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney.
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