The Archeparchy of Amida (or Diyarbakır) is the
Chaldaean rite
The East Syriac Rite or East Syrian Rite, also called the Edessan Rite, Assyrian Rite, Persian Rite, Chaldean Rite, Nestorian Rite, Babylonian Rite or Syro-Oriental Rite, is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy ...
Catholic diocese of Turkey, with its archiepiscopal see in
Diyarbakır,
Turkey.
History
It was first established in 1531 as the
Chaldean Diocese of Amid
The Diocese of Amid ( Diyarbakir) was a diocese or archdiocese of the Chaldean Church from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. From at least the 13th century the city of Amid had been part of the Diocese of Maiperqat of the Church of the Ea ...
(a). In June 1915 it gained territory from the suppressed
Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Seert
Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Seert was a diocese of the Chaldean Catholic Church, centered in Seert. It existed during the eighteenth, nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The diocese was ruined during the First World War.
Early Chaldean an ...
(now a titular see).
After the
Assyrian genocide it was left vacant and lapsed after the death of its archbishop in 1923. Nevertheless, the size of the diocese increased on 3 July 1957 from the suppression of the
Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Gazireh
Cizre (; ar, جَزِيْرَة ٱبْن عُمَر, Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar, or ''Madinat al-Jazira'', he, גזירא, Gzira, ku, Cizîr, ''Cizîra Botan'', or ''Cizîre'', syr, ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ, Gāzartā,) is a city in the Cizre Dis ...
.
On 3 January 1966, it was promoted to an
Archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archdiocese) and a new archbishop was ordained to fill the role. Since that point, it has been the sole Chaldean diocese in Turkey, and in effect resides over all of Turkeys Chaldeans.
Its episcopal see was historically located at
St. Mary's Cathedral in
Diyarbekir, and it still is in modern day, but the archeparch (or archbishop) now resides in
Beyoğlu
Beyoğlu (, ota, بكاوغلی, script=Arab) is a district on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, separated from the old city (historic peninsula of Constantinople) by the Golden Horn. It was known as the region of Pera (Πέρα, meani ...
,
Istanbul, where the Chaldean community use
Holy Trinity Greek Catholic Cathedral, formerly for the
Greek Byzantine Catholics, as their church.
Demographics
The most recent data indicates that the Chaldean population is 7,640, up from 6,000 in 1980.
Statistics
1980 6,000
1990 1,400
1999 5,000
2001 5,100
2002 5,100
2003 4,800
2004 5,925
2006 4,226
2009 6,219
2013 7,640
Episcopal incumbents
(incomplete)
; ''Eparchs''
...
; ''Archeparchs''
* Gabriel Batta (1966.01.03 – 1977.03.07)
* Paul Karatas (1977.03.07 – 2005.01.16)
* ''
apostolic administrator François Yakan (2007 - 2018.12.22)
* Ramzi Garmou
(since 2018.12.23)
The Archeparch (archbishop) is immediately subject to the
Patriarch of Babylon, who heads the
Chaldean Catholic Church
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.
See also
*
Catholic Church in Turkey
References
External links
GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links
Chaldean Catholic dioceses
Diyarbakır Province
Southeastern Anatolia Region
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