Thyatira (titular see) explained

Bishopric of Thyatira (Italian: Tiatira|links=no) 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]		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^[12]	15 December 1727^[13] ^[14]
Stephanus Ladislaus Luzenszky		7 September 1729^[15] ^[16]	1734^[17]
Bartolomeo Gradenigo	Coadjutor archbishop of Udine, Republic of Venice	24 August 1734	13 March 1762^[18] ^[19]
	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^[20]
Giuseppe del Prete Belmonte		28 September 1855
Charles Menzies Gordon SJ	Apostolic Vicar of Jamaica	28 May 1889	16 November 1911
	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
	Auxiliary Bishop in Esztergom, Hungary	11 March 1951	21 May 1976
	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

• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain.

External links

• Entry Giga-Catholic
• Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze

Notes and References

1. Acts of the Apostles:19 - 21.
2. http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/pauls-third-journey-map.html 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]
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. Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1721, Number 10.
13. Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 153, Additions/Corrections
14. Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 379.
15. Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 432.
16. Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1730, Number 10.
17. Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1734, Number 24.
18. Annuario Pontificio, Year 1764
19. Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 94, and Page 406.
20. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (H. Colburn, 1820) p 454.