Diocese of Abydus is

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of the

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Abydos Abydos may refer to: *Abydos, a progressive metal side project of German singer Andy Kuntz * Abydos (Hellespont), an ancient city in Mysia, Asia Minor * Abydos (''Stargate''), name of a fictional planet in the '' Stargate'' science fiction universe ...

( grc, Ἄβυδος, la, Abydus) was an ancient city in

Mysia Mysia (UK , US or ; el, Μυσία; lat, Mysia; tr, Misya) was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor (Anatolia, Asian part of modern Turkey). It was located on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. It was bounded by Bithynia on the ...

. It was located at the

Nara Burnu Nara Burnu (Turkish "Cape Nara"), formerly Nağara Burnu, in English Nagara Point, and in older sources Point Pesquies, is a headland on the Anatolian side of the Dardanelles Straits, north of Çanakkale. It is the narrowest and, with , the deepest ...

promontory on the Asian coast of the

Hellespont The Dardanelles (; tr, Çanakkale Boğazı, lit=Strait of Çanakkale, el, Δαρδανέλλια, translit=Dardanéllia), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; ...

, opposite the ancient city of

Sestos Sestos ( el, Σηστός, la, Sestus) was an ancient city in Thrace. It was located at the Thracian Chersonese peninsula on the European coast of the Hellespont, opposite the ancient city of Abydos, and near the town of Eceabat in Turkey. In ...

, and near the city of

Çanakkale Çanakkale (pronounced ), ancient ''Dardanellia'' (), is a city and seaport in Turkey in Çanakkale province on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. The population of the city is 195,439 (2021 estimate). Çanakkale is ...

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. Eastern Orthodox bishopric of Abydos appears in all the ''

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'' of the

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from the mid-7th century until the time of

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(1341), first as a

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Cyzicus Cyzicus (; grc, Κύζικος ''Kúzikos''; ota, آیدینجق, ''Aydıncıḳ'') was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peni ...

and then from 1084 as a

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without suffragans.Sophrone Pétridès. v. ''Abydus'', i
''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''
vol. I. Paris. 1909. coll. 209-210. Abydos remained Eastern Orthodox metropolitan see until the city fell to the Turks in the 14th century. In 1222, during the Latin occupation, the

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Giovanni Colonna united the dioceses of Abydos and

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and placed the see under direct Papal authority. No longer a residential

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, Abydus is today listed by the

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as a titular see, and has had the following incumbents:

Catholic bishops of Abydus

* Michael Mazloum (1816.12.17 – 1817.04.29) * Guilelmus Zerbi (1818.10.02 – 1825.06.27) * Giovanni Pietro Losana (1827.01.23 – 1833.09.30) *

Francis George Mostyn Francis George Mostyn (1800–1847) was a Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England from 1840 to 1847. He was born in 1800, the son of Charles Browne Mostyn, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, by his se ...

( 1840.09.22 – 1847.08.11) * Jean-Baptiste Anouilh (1848.04.28 – 1869.02.18) * Luis Bruschetti (1876.06.26 – 1881.10.27) * Pietro Caprotti (1882.02.28 – 1886.09.01) * Julien Vidal (1887.05.13 – 1922.04.02) * Etienne Irénée Faugier (1922.06.19 – 1928.06.04) *

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 Ca ...

(1929.05.20 – 1948.06.21) *

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(1951.08.02 – 1954.11.12) * Julio Benigno Laschi González (1955.03.23 – 1969.05.19) * Joseph Pallikaparampil (1973.06.16 – 1981.02.06) *

Jacob Manathodath Jacob Manathodath (; born 22 February 1947) is a former Bishop of Palghat. Briefly he also served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam, India. Biography Jacob Manathodath was born on 22 February 1947 in Kodamthuruthu, ...

(1992.09.06 – 1996.11.11) *

Michel Abrass Michel Abrass, BA (born 14 December 1948) is a retired church official who was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre from 2014 to 2021. Biography Michel Abrass was born in Aleppo, Syria. In 1973 he earned a licentiate in p ...

(2006.10.17 – 2006.11.11)

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