Syriac Church

Changes in Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions

DateAscendingCountryChange
UnknownGreece GreeceTitular Episcopal See of Anastasiopolis (Syriac Rite) was established
UnknownLebanon LebanonTitular Episcopal See of Tripolis in Libanum (Syriac Rite) was established
UnknownSyria SyriaTitular Episcopal See of Arethusa (Syriac Rite) was established
UnknownSyria SyriaTitular Episcopal See of Hierapolis (Syriac Rite) was established
UnknownTurkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Anastasiopolis (Syriac Rite) was established
UnknownTurkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Bathna (Syriac Rite) was established
UnknownTurkiye TurkiyeTitular Archiepiscopal See of Chalcedon (Syriac Rite) was established
UnknownTurkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Martyropolis (Syriac Rite) was established
UnknownTitular Episcopal See of Ioppe (Syriac Rite) was established
325Lebanon LebanonPatriarchal See of Antioch (Syriac Rite) was established
1626Lebanon LebanonPatriarchal See of Antioch (Syriac Rite) was restored
1633Syria SyriaMetropolitan Archdiocese of Damascus (Syriac Rite) was established
1659.01.28Syria SyriaArchdiocese of Aleppo (Syriac Rite) was established (without ecclesiastical province)
1678Syria SyriaMetropolitan Archdiocese of Homs (Syriac Rite) was established
1702Lebanon LebanonPatriarchal See of Antioch (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1750Israel IsraelArchdiocese of Jerusalem (Syriac Rite) was established
1781Lebanon LebanonPatriarchal See of Antioch (Syriac Rite) was restored
1783Turkiye TurkiyeDiocese of Mardin (Syriac Rite) was established
1790Iraq IraqArchdiocese of Mossul (Syriac Rite) was established (without ecclesiastical province)
1800Israel IsraelArchdiocese of Jerusalem (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1800Syria SyriaDiocese of Hama (Syriac Rite) was established
1800Syria SyriaDiocese of Nabk (Syriac Rite) was established
1817Lebanon LebanonDiocese of Beirut (Syriac Rite) was established (became suffragan of Antioch)
1850Syria SyriaDiocese of Hama (Syriac Rite) was suppressed (to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Homs and united to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Homs)
1850Syria SyriaDiocese of Nabk (Syriac Rite) was suppressed (to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Homs and united to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Homs)
1862.09.28Iraq IraqArchdiocese of Baghdad (Syriac Rite) was established (without ecclesiastical province)
1862.09.28Turkiye TurkiyeDiocese of Amida (Syriac Rite) was established
1863Turkiye TurkiyeDiocese of Gazireh (Syriac Rite) was established
1888.05.01Turkiye TurkiyeDiocese of Amida (Syriac Rite) was suppressed (to Diocese of Mardin and Amida)
1888.05.01Turkiye TurkiyeDiocese of Mardin (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Diocese of Mardin and Amida (gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Amida)
1900Lebanon LebanonTitular Episcopal See of Tripolis in Libanum (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1914Syria SyriaTitular Episcopal See of Arethusa (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Arethusus
1922Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Bathna (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Bathna
1923Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Bathna (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Bathna
1924Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Bathna (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Batna
1925Greece GreeceTitular Episcopal See of Anastasiopolis (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1925Syria SyriaTitular Episcopal See of Arethusus (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Arethusa
1925Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Batna (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Bahtna
1925Titular Episcopal See of Ioppe (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1926Syria SyriaTitular Episcopal See of Hierapolis (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Hierapolis
1926Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Phoba (Syriac Rite) was established
1926Titular Episcopal See of Ioppe (Syriac Rite) was restored
1927Titular Episcopal See of Ioppe (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1929Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Bahtna (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Bahtnæ
1929Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Martyropolis (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1929Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Phoba (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1930Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Bahtnæ (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Bahtnæ
1933Syria SyriaTitular Episcopal See of Hierapolis (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Titular Episcopal See of Hierapolis in Syria
1933Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Bahtnæ (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1944Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Archiepiscopal See of Edessa in Osrhoëne (Syriac Rite) was established
1957Turkiye TurkiyeDiocese of Gazireh (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1957.07.15Syria SyriaDiocese of Hassaké (Syriac Rite) was established (without ecclesiastical province)
1963Syria SyriaTitular Metropolitan See of Apamea in Syria (Syriac Rite) was established
1963Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Metropolitan See of Amida (Syriac Rite) was restored
1963Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Batnæ (Syriac Rite) was restored
1964.12.03Syria SyriaDiocese of Hassaké (Syriac Rite) was promoted as Archdiocese of Hassaké–Nisibi
1965.12.03Egypt EgyptDiocese of Cairo (Syriac Rite) was established (without ecclesiastical province)
1972Turkiye TurkiyeDiocese of Mardin and Amida (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1979Turkiye TurkiyeTitular Episcopal See of Dara Syrorum (Syriac Rite) was restored
1986Iraq IraqTitular Metropolitan See of Tagritum (Syriac Rite) was established
1991Iraq IraqPatriarchal Exarchate of Basra and the Gulf (Syriac Rite) was established
1991Lebanon LebanonPatriarchal Exarchate of Lebanon (Syriac Rite) was established
1991Palestine Palestine, Israel Israel, Jordan JordanPatriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Palestine and Jordan) (Syriac Rite) was established
1991Turkiye TurkiyePatriarchal Exarchate of Turkiye (Syriac Rite) was established
1995.11.06USA USADiocese of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark (Syriac Rite) was established (without ecclesiastical province)
1997Lebanon LebanonPatriarchal Exarchate of Lebanon (Syriac Rite) was suppressed
1997Sudan Sudan, South Sudan South SudanTerritory Dependent on the Patriarch of Sudan (Syriac Rite) was established
2001.06.22Venezuela VenezuelaApostolic Exarchate of Venezuela (Syriac Rite) was established
2013Sudan Sudan, South Sudan South SudanTerritory Dependent on the Patriarch of Sudan (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Sudan and South Sudan
2016.01.07Canada CanadaApostolic Exarchate of Canada (Syriac Rite) was established (from Diocese of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark)
2019.06.28Iraq IraqDiocese of Adiabene (Syriac Rite) was established (from Archdiocese of Mossul and without ecclesiastical province)
2020.09.10Iraq IraqTitular Metropolitan See of Tagritum (Syriac Rite) was demoted as Titular Episcopal See of Tagritum
2021.06.28USA USADiocese of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark (Syriac Rite) was renamed as Diocese of Our Lady of Deliverance in the United States

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