Archdiocese of Hierapolis in Syria

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]

  1. ^ a b 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.
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