Martyropolis is a historical episcopal see of

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, in what was the Roman province of

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...

, now located in modern Turkey. It is now a

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of the

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Historical diocese

The

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was centered on what is now

Silvan, Diyarbakır Silvan ( ku, Farqîn; ota, ميا فارقين, translit=Meyafarikîn) is a city and district in the Diyarbakır Province of Turkey. Its population is 41,451. History Silvan has been identified by several scholars as one of two possible locati ...

in the province of Mesopotamia.

Known bishops

* Zennebus,Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, ''The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon'', (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p123. *

Maruthas Saint Maruthas or Marutha of Martyropolis was a Syrian monk who became bishop"The Armenian Life of Marutha of Maipherkat", Ralph Marcus, ''The Harvard Theological Review'', Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 1932), 47. of Maypherkat in Mesopotamia ( Meiafa ...

fl. 383-420.

Catholic titular sees

Latin archepiscopal titular see

The diocese was nominally restored when a Latin (

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)

titular bishopric A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...

was established under the name Martiria, of the lowest (episcopal) rank. Around 1830 it was renamed Martyropolis, and in 1932 it was promoted to titular archdiocese. It is vacant since 1967, having had the following incumbents: ;Titular bishops of Martiria * Luis Norman (Horman),

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(O.F.M.) † (17 July 1560 Appointed – ) * Angelus Pereira,

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(O. Carm.) † (15 May 1600 Appointed – 21 June 1614 Died) * Cristovão de Almeida, *O.S.A. † (16 Nov 1671 Appointed – 26 Oct 1679 Died) * Jan Mikolaj Zgierski † (2 Jan 1696 Appointed – 25 Jan 1706 Appointed, Bishop of Smolensk) * Francesco Martinengo † (19 Oct 1711 Appointed – 25 March 1746 Died) * Fabian Franziszek Plaskowski † (25 May 1750 Appointed – 18 Feb 1784 Died) * Josephus Korytkowski † (26 Sep 1785 Appointed – 11 June 1790 Died) * Michal Mateusz Kosmowski, *C.R.L. † (26 Sep 1791 Appointed – 11 Oct 1804 Died) ;Titular bishops of Martyropolis * John Charles Prince † (5 July 1844 Appointed – 8 June 1852 Appointed, Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec) * Joseph William Hendren, O.F.M. † (25 Feb 1853 Appointed – 14 Nov 1866 Died) * Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas † (31 Dec 1877 Appointed – 15 June 1893 Appointed, Titular Archbishop of

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) * Gusztáv Károly Majláth † (26 March 1897 Appointed – 28 June 1897 Succeeded, Bishop of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen) * José Ramón Astorga Salinas † (22 June 1899 Appointed – 3 Dec 1906 Died) * António Alves Ferreira † (19 Dec 1907 Appointed – 2 July 1911 Succeeded, Bishop of Viseu) * Gyözö Horváth † (26 March 1912 Appointed – 19 Dec 1944 Died) ;Titular archbishops of Martyropolis * (Chaldean)

Yousef VII Ghanima Mar Yousef VII Ghanima (January 29, 1881 – July 8, 1958) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1947 until his death in 1958. Life Mar Yousef VII Ghanima was born on January 29, 1881 in Mossul and was ordained a priest on May ...

† (29 April 1946 Appointed – 21 June 1948 Confirmed,

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(Iraq) ( 947.09.171948.06.21 – 1958.07.08) *

Basil Ladyka Archbishop Basil Volodymyr Ladyka, O.S.B.M. ( uk, Василь Володимир Ладика; 2 August 1884 in Drohobych, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) – 1 September 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada) was a Ukrainian-born C ...

, * O.S.B.M. † (21 June 1948 Appointed – 1 Sep 1956 Died) * João Resende (Rezende) Costa, S.D.B. † (19 July 1957 Appointed – 15 Nov 1967 Succeeded, Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais)

Syrian Catholic episcopal titular see

A titular see of the Syrian Catholic (

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) church was also established, but suppressed in 1929, without a single recorded incumbent.

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