Bishopric of Thyatira () 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 journeyActs of the Apostles:19–21. around 54AD,Apostle Paul's Third Missionary Journey Map (53-58 AD) when he stayed for three years in nearby Ephesus. Timothy, Onesimus and JohnZahn, T. "John the Apostle", in Schaff, Philip. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. VI: Innocents – Liudger, p.203 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.Epiphaninius Adv Haer LI 33.
Known bishops + Ancient bishops of Thyatira Name Position From To *CarpusFarmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press (2011) p.78 & 79.Acts of Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice. 155c. 165Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, 4.15.Serras c. 258Robert Eden, p 347. The perpetual government of Christ's church: A new edition, with a biographicale notice, (University Press, 1842) p347. SarapasPatrum Nicaenorum nomina p13. Attended first Council of Nicaeafl. 325 PhoscusRichard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p 336. attended Council of Chalcedon fl. 451 Esaias a presbyterJohn Gill, An Exposition of the Revelation of S. John the Divine, both doctrinal and practical. (George Keith, 1776 ) p31. attended Second Council of Nicaea fl. 787
+ Titular Bishops of Thyatira Name Position From To Pantaleon Bruns OSB Auxiliary Bishop in Paderborn, Holy Roman Empire20 Jan 1721 Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1721, Number 10.15 December 1727Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 153, Additions/CorrectionsHierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 379. Stephanus Ladislaus Luzenszky7 September 1729Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 432.Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1730, Number 10. 1734Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1734, Number 24. Bartolomeo Gradenigo Coadjutor archbishop of Udine, Republic of Venice24 August 1734 13 March 1762Annuario Pontificio, Year 1764Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 94, and Page 406. Thomas Johann Kaspar von Thun und Hohenstein Auxiliary Bishop in Passau, Holy Roman Empire 16 December 17764 November 1795Jacobus Ludovicus O'Donnell OFM Apostolic Vicar of Newfoundland5 January 17961 April 1811Unknown Greek bishop in 1810The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (H. Colburn, 1820) p 454. Giuseppe del Prete Belmonte28 September 1855 Charles Menzies Gordon SJ Apostolic Vicar of Jamaica28 May 188916 November 1911 Peter Joseph Lausberg Auxiliary Bishop in Cologne, Germany1 May 191430 August 1922 Kazimieras Mikalojus Michalkiewicz Auxiliary Bishop in Vilnius, Lithuania13 January 192316 February 1940Heinrich Metzroth Auxiliary Bishop in Trier, Germany12 May 1941 19 January 1951 Imre Szabó Auxiliary Bishop in Esztergom, Hungary11 March 195121 May 1976 Thomas Victor Dolinay Auxiliary Bishop in Passaic, United States28 June 19763 December 1981 Myron Michael Daciuk OSBM Auxiliary 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)
See also Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
References
External links Entry Giga-Catholic Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze