Thyatira (titular see)


Bishopric of Thyatira is a titular see of the Roman 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

NamePositionFromTo
Pantaleon Bruns OSBAuxiliary Bishop in Paderborn, Holy Roman Empire20 Jan 172115 December 1727
Stephanus Ladislaus Luzenszky7 September 17291734
Bartolomeo GradenigoCoadjutor archbishop of Udine, Republic of Venice24 August 173413 March 1762
Thomas Johann Kaspar von Thun und HohensteinAuxiliary Bishop in Passau, Holy Roman Empire16 December 17764 November 1795
Jacobus Ludovicus O'Donnell OFMApostolic Vicar of Newfoundland5 January 17961 April 1811
Unknown Greek bishop in 1810
Giuseppe del Prete Belmonte28 September 1855
Charles Menzies Gordon SJApostolic Vicar of Jamaica28 May 188916 November 1911
Peter Joseph LausbergAuxiliary Bishop in Cologne, Germany1 May 191430 August 1922
Kazimieras Mikalojus MichalkiewiczAuxiliary Bishop in Vilnius, Lithuania13 January 192316 February 1940
Heinrich MetzrothAuxiliary Bishop in Trier, Germany12 May 194119 January 1951
Imre SzabóAuxiliary Bishop in Esztergom, Hungary11 March 195121 May 1976
Thomas Victor DolinayAuxiliary Bishop in Passaic, USA28 June 19763 December 1981
Myron Michael Daciuk OSBMAuxiliary Bishop in Winnipeg, Canada24 June 198228 October 1991

List of archbishops of Thyateira and Great Britain