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In central Iraq, a Syriac Orthodox diocese for Baghdad, the capital of the ʿAbbasid caliphate, is attested between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. [62] There were also Syriac Orthodox dioceses for Tagrit, Karma (seventh to thirteenth centuries), Bahrin, Piroz Shabur, Karsabak, ʿAqula, and the Bani Taghlib Arabs (seventh to tenth centuries).
Map showing the ancient sites of Upper Mesopotamia and Syria. Kfar Tab is located on the west. Kfar Tab (Syriac: ܟܦܪܛܐܒ Kafrṭāb) was a diocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church near Apamea in Syria, attested in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Four of its bishops are mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian.
The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch originally covered the whole region of the Middle East and India. In recent centuries, its parishioners started to emigrate to other countries over the world. Today, the Syriac Orthodox Church has several archdioceses and patriarchal vicariates (exarchates) in many countries covering six continents.
Map of the Roman Diocese of the East showing Euphratensis and it seat, Hierapolis, in the 4th century. The (arch)diocese of Hierapolis in Syria was the metropolitan bishopric of the ecclesiastical province of the Euphratensis. It was based in the city of Hierapolis in Syria (Arabic Manbij, Syriac Mabbug). [1]
Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Near East during the medieval period, including the ancient Diocese of Baghdad. The main primary sources for the Syriac Orthodox bishops of Baghdad are the Chronicle of the Syriac Orthodox patriarch Michael the Syrian (1166–1199), who was one of the most notable Syriac Orthodox writers of the medieval period, [3] and also the Chronicon ...
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Coptic Orthodox Church in North America also has several dioceses. [4] Syriac Orthodox Church in North America has its own hierarchy, with two dioceses in the United States (eastern and western), [5] two patriarchal vicariates (one for Canada and one for Central America), and also adding to that the autonomous Malankara Archdiocese of North ...
English: Syriac Orthodox dioceses in the Middle East during the middle ages. Palestine . Syria . Lebanon and Cyprus . Cilicia . Cappadocia . Amid and Arzun . Commagene .