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Zuptara (West Syriac diocese)

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Zuptara (or Zupatra, Zubtara, Zupatra, Zipatra) was a Syriac Orthodox diocese in the Melitene region of eastern Turkey. The diocese of Zuptara is attested between the eighth and eleventh centuries, and twelve of its bishops are mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian. The diocese almost certainly lapsed during the twelfth century.

Sources

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The main primary source for the West Syriac bishops of Zuptara is the record of episcopal consecrations appended to Volume III of the Chronicle of the Syriac patriarch Michael the Syrian (1166–99).[1] In this Appendix Michael listed most of the bishops consecrated by the Syriac patriarchs of Antioch between the ninth and twelfth centuries. Twenty-eight Syriac patriarchs sat during this period, and in many cases Michael was able to list the names of the bishops consecrated during their reigns, their monasteries of origin, and the place where they were consecrated.

Location

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Zuptara was a small town to the southwest of Melitene (modern Malatya) in eastern Turkey. It lay close to the border between the Byzantine Empire and the ʿAbbasid Caliphate, and for much of the ninth and tenth centuries it was disputed between the Byzantines and the Muslims.[2]

Bishops of Zuptara

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Twelve Syriac Orthodox bishops of Zuptara between the eighth and eleventh centuries are mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian.[3]

Name From Consecrated in the reign of Place of consecration
Theophilus Monastery of Elishaʿ Quriaqos (793–817) not known
Thomas Monastery of the Easterners Dionysius I of Tel Mahre (818–45) not known
Shemʿon Monastery of Mar Yaʿqob of Kaishum Ignatius II (878–83) not known
Yohannan Monastery of Mar Shemʿon Dionysius II (896–909) not known
Theophilus Monastery of Yohannan Dionysius II (896–909) not known
David Monastery of Mar Shlemun of Dolikh Yohannan IV (910–22) not known
Theodosius Monastery of Mar Atonos Yohannan V (936–53) not known
Stephen not known Yohannan V (936–53) not known
Basil not known Iwanis II (954–7) not known
Yohannan Monastery of Nahra d'Qarire Dionysius III (958–61) not known
Quriaqos Monastery of Nahra d'Qarire Yohannan VI Sarigta (965–86) Melitene
Yohannan not known Yohannan bar ʿAbdon (1042–57) not known

The diocese of Zuptara almost certainly lapsed during the twelfth century.

Notes

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  1. ^ Michael the Syrian, Chronicle (ed. Chabot), iii. 451–82
  2. ^ Fiey, POCN, 283
  3. ^ Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, iii. 451–82 and 504

References

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  • Abbeloos, Jean Baptiste; Lamy, Thomas Joseph, eds. (1877). Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (3 vols). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Fiey, Jean Maurice (1993). Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. Beirut: Orient-Institut. ISBN 9783515057189.
  • Jean-Baptiste Chabot, Chronique de Michel le Syrien, Patriarche Jacobite d'Antiche (1166-1199). Éditée pour la première fois et traduite en francais I-IV (1899;1901;1905;1910; a supplement to volume I containing an introduction to Michael and his work, corrections, and an index, was published in 1924. Reprinted in four volumes 1963, 2010).