Thyatira (titular see)
# Thyatira (titular see)

Bishopric of Thyatira (Italian: Tiatira) is a titular see of the Catholic Church centered on the ancient Roman city of Thyatira in Asia Minor.

The bishopric of Thyatira stretched back to very early Christianity. Christianity came to the region in the mid 1st century with Paul the Apostle on his Third missionary journey around 54AD, when he stayed for three years in nearby Ephesus. Timothy, Onesimus and John were all active in the area and The Christian community here was addressed by letter of John as it is one of the Seven churches of Revelation.

The diocese was in the ecclesiastical province of Sardis.

By the 3rd century, almost the entire town was Christian in religion but a stronghold of the Montanist sect.

## Known bishops

Ancient bishops of Thyatira :

| Name | Position | From | To |
| - | - | - | - |
| *Carpus | | c.155 | c. 165 |
| Serras c.258 | | | |
| Sarapas | Attended first Council of Nicaea | fl.325 | |
| Phoscus | attended Council of Chalcedon | fl 451 | |
| Esaias a presbyter. | attended Second Council of Nicaea | fl787 | |

Titular Bishops of Thyatira :

| Name | Position | From | To |
| - | - | - | - |
| Pantaleon Bruns OSB | Auxiliary Bishop in Paderborn, Holy Roman Empire | 20 Jan 1721 | 15 December 1727 |
| Stephanus Ladislaus Luzenszky | | 7 September 1729 | 1734 |
| Bartolomeo Gradenigo | Coadjutor archbishop of Udine, Republic of Venice | 24 August 1734 | 13 March 1762 |
| Thomas Johann Kaspar von Thun und Hohenstein | Auxiliary Bishop in Passau, Holy Roman Empire | 16 December 1776 | 4 November 1795 |
| Jacobus Ludovicus O'Donnell OFM | Apostolic Vicar of Newfoundland | 5 January 1796 | 1 April 1811 |
| Unknown Greek bishop in 1810 | | | |
| Giuseppe del Prete Belmonte | | 28 September 1855 | |
| Charles Menzies Gordon SJ | Apostolic Vicar of Jamaica | 28 May 1889 | 16 November 1911 |
| Peter Joseph Lausberg | Auxiliary Bishop in Cologne, Germany | 1 May 1914 | 30 August 1922 |
| Kazimieras Mikalojus Michalkiewicz | Auxiliary Bishop in Vilnius, Lithuania | 13 January 1923 | 16 February 1940 |
| Heinrich Metzroth | Auxiliary Bishop in Trier, Germany | 12 May 1941 | 19 January 1951 |
| Imre Szabó | Auxiliary Bishop in Esztergom, Hungary | 11 March 1951 | 21 May 1976 |
| Thomas Victor Dolinay | Auxiliary Bishop in Passaic, USA | 28 June 1976 | 3 December 1981 |
| Myron Michael Daciuk OSBM | Auxiliary Bishop in Winnipeg, Canada | 24 June 1982 | 28 October 1991 |

* Peter Joseph Lausberg
* Weihbischof Heinrich Metzroth Rom
* Thomas Johann von Thun und Hohenstein

### List of archbishops of Thyateira and Great Britain

* Germanos Strenopoulos (1922—1951)
* Athenagoras Kavadas (1951—1962)
* Athenagoras Kokkinakis (1963—1979)
* Methodios Fouyias (1979—1988)
* Gregorios Theocharous (from 1988)
