The archdiocese 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).Siméon Vailhé, "Hierapolis", The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910). It was traditionally the fifth see in dignity under the Patriarch of Antioch.Bernard Hamilton, The Latin Church in the Crusader States: The Secular Church (Ashgate, 1980), pp. 29, 38, 51. Under the Patriarch Athanasius I in the sixth century, it had nine suffragan bishoprics.
During the Crusades, a Latin archbishop of Hierapolis was established at Dülük. He usually resided in Tell Bashir, as did the Syriac Orthodox bishops in the Crusader period. The diocese was set up between 1131 and 1134 by Count Joscelin II of Edessa. It was subject to the Latin Patriarch of Antioch. It had two suffragan sees, Marash and Kesoun.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. It was effectively lost by 1151.
Bishops Greek Orthodox bishops Philotimus, attended the Council of Nicaea (325)Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus (Paris, 1740), Vol. 2, cols. 925–930. Theodotus, attended the Council of Constantinople (381) Alexander, attended the Council of Ephesus (431), deposed for heresy Panolbius, succeeded Alexander John, succeeded Panolbius Stephen I, succeeded John in 446, still in office in 456 Cyrus, deposed 485Patrick T. R. Gray, The Defense of Chalcedon in the East (451–553) (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979), p. 33. Philoxenus, ordained in 485 by Peter the Fuller, died in 523 Theodore, attended the Council of Constantinople (553) Stephen II, a contemporary of Evagrius Scholasticus (died 594) who wrote a biography of Saint Golinduch (died 591) Agapius (died after 942)
Syriac Orthodox bishops
Thomas of Harqel ()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.
The following Syriac Orthodox bishops are mentioned in the work of the 12th-century patriarch Michael the Great.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.
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.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.
Latin archbishops Franco, attached his seal to a document of 1134Bernard 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.
Titular bishops:
Julien-François-Pierre Carmené (24 March 1898 – 23 August 1908) Louis-François Sueur (1 December 1908 – 7 October 1914) Angelo Maria Dolci (13 November 1914 – 16 March 1933) Tommaso Trussoni (9 April 1934 – 21 December 1940) (14 August 1942 – 20 November 1950) (12 June 1951 – 17 October 1951) (3 March 1952 – 3 February 1954) Ermenegildo Florit (12 July 1954 – 9 March 1962) Antonio del Giudice (18 April 1962 – 20 August 1982)
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