The Archdiocese of Mopsuestia is a historical archbishopric of the Patriarchate of Antioch with its seat (cathedral) at Mopsuestia (the Mamistra of the Middle Ages and Misis of the Ottoman Empire). It remains a titular see (Latin : Archidioecesis Mopsuestena or Mamistrensis) of the Roman Catholic Church.
The diocese of Mopsuestia originally corresponded to the Roman province of Cilicia Secunda, part of the Diocese of the East. It was originally a suffragan of the archdiocese of Anazarbus. In the sixth century, it was raised to metropolitan (archiepiscopal) rank, but without suffragans of its own, as recorded in the tenth-century Notitiae Episcopatuum . Its most famous bishop during the early period was Theodore II (392–428), founder of the theological school of Antioch whose works were condemned at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553.
With the early Muslim conquests in the seventh century the archdiocese falls into obscurity. It was re-founded in December 1099 during the First Crusade. A series of Latin bishops were appointed until the fourteenth century, when the rise of the Ottoman Empire made it impossible for the bishops to maintain their residence in the city. Despite the continuance of the Genoese colony there, the archbishopric disappeared. The most famous incumbent during the Latin period was Ralph of Domfront, who in 1135 was transferred to the Patriarchate of Antioch. A series of late bishops—James, Peter and Thomas—were Dominicans. The last Latin archbishop, Volcardus, was an Augustinian. He never got to his see on account of the Mameluke threat.
Between the ninth and twelfth centuries there was also a diocese of the Church of the East with its seat in Mopsuestia. It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Damascus. It is first recorded in the chronicle of Eliya of Damascus in 893. It probably ceased to exist in the twelfth century if not earlier. [1]
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