Thyatira (titular see)

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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
NamePositionFromTo
*Carpus[5][6]c. 155c. 165[7]
Serras c. 258[8]
Sarapas[9]Attended first Council of Nicaeafl. 325
Phoscus[10]attended Council of Chalcedonfl. 451
Esaias a presbyter[11]attended Second Council of Nicaeafl. 787
Titular Bishops of Thyatira
NamePositionFromTo
Pantaleon Bruns OSBAuxiliary Bishop in Paderborn, Holy Roman Empire20 Jan 1721 [12]15 December 1727[13][14]
Stephanus Ladislaus Luzenszky7 September 1729[15][16]1734[17]
Bartolomeo GradenigoCoadjutor archbishop of Udine, Republic of Venice24 August 173413 March 1762[18][19]
Thomas Johann Kaspar von Thun und HohensteinAuxiliary Bishop in Passau, Holy Roman Empire16 December 17764 November 1795
Jacobus Ludovicus O'Donnell OFMApostolic Vicar of Newfoundland5 January 17961 April 1811
Unknown Greek bishop in 1810[20]
Giuseppe del Prete Belmonte28 September 1855
Charles Menzies Gordon SJApostolic Vicar of Jamaica28 May 188916 November 1911
Peter Joseph LausbergAuxiliary Bishop in Cologne, Germany1 May 191430 August 1922
Kazimieras Mikalojus MichalkiewiczAuxiliary Bishop in Vilnius, Lithuania13 January 192316 February 1940
Heinrich MetzrothAuxiliary Bishop in Trier, Germany12 May 194119 January 1951
Imre SzabóAuxiliary Bishop in Esztergom, Hungary11 March 195121 May 1976
Thomas Victor DolinayAuxiliary Bishop in Passaic, United States28 June 19763 December 1981
Myron Michael Daciuk OSBMAuxiliary Bishop in Winnipeg, Canada24 June 198228 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)

References

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