The Church of the East, also known as the Nestorian Church and the Persian Church, was an Eastern Christian denomination that in 410 organised itself within the Sasanian Empire, and in 424 declared its leader independent of "western" Church leaders, which for Church in the East included all those in the Roman Empire, including the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Constantinople. From the Persian Empire it spread to other parts of Asia in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Kashkar, also known as Kaskar,, was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Its name appears to originate from Syriac ܟܪܟܐ karḵa meaning "citadel" or "town". Other sources connect it to ܟܫܟܪܘܬܐ kaškarūṯá "farming". It was originally built on the Tigris, across the river from the later medieval city of Wasit.
The title is vacant, as it's been no longer assigned since 2003.
It had had a single incumbent, of the intermediate (archiepiscopal) rank:
Anbar was an ancient and medieval town in central Iraq. Its ruins are near modern Fallujah, and give its name to the Al-Anbar Governorate.
Palaeopolis was a city in ancient Lydia that was included in the late Roman province of Asia Prima. Its bishopric was thus a suffragan of Ephesus, the metropolitan see of that province.
Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi ;1999)) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of Tehran of the Chaldean Catholics from March 16, 1971 until his death on February 7, 1999. He was born in Sanandaj سنندج, Kurdistan Iran on June 27, 1914 and ordained priest on March 3, 1940 and consecrated bishop on, October 22, 1967, in Iran.
Dara or Daras was an important East Roman fortress city in northern Mesopotamia on the border with the Sassanid Empire. Because of its great strategic importance, it featured prominently in the Roman-Persian conflicts of the 6th century, with the famous Battle of Dara taking place before its walls in 530. The former (arch)bishopric remains a multiple Catholic titular see. Today the Turkish village of Oğuz, Mardin Province, occupies its location.
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk is an archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome. The archeparchy was created in the early years of the nineteenth century. Its present ordinary, Archbishop Yousif Thomas Mirkis, was consecrated in 2014.
Diocese of Kashkar, sometimes called Kaskar, was the senior diocese in the Church of the East's Province of the Patriarch. It see was in the city of Kashkar. The diocese is attested between the fourth and the twelfth centuries. The bishops of Kashkar had the privilege of guarding the patriarchal throne during the interregnum between the death of a patriarch and the appointment of his successor. As a result, they are often mentioned by name in the standard histories of the Nestorian patriarchs, so that a relatively full list of the bishops of the diocese has survived.
The Archeparchy of Amida is the Chaldaean rite Catholic diocese of Turkey, with its archiepiscopal see in Diyarbakır, Turkey.
Kaskar or Kaškar may refer to:
This is a historical list of all bishops of the Catholic Church whose sees were within the present-day boundaries of the United States, with links to the bishops who consecrated them. It includes only members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and their predecessors.
Martyropolis is a historical episcopal see of early Christianity, in what was the Roman province of Mesopotamia, now located in modern Turkey. It is now a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
Rew-Ardashir is only Metropolitan titular archbishopric of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Gazireh is a town in Turkish Kurdistan, double former eparchy and former Latin Independent mission.
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad is Metropolitan, proper Archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon, with cathedral see in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Basra is a non-metropolitan Archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in southern Irak.
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aleppo is the only eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Syria.
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Beirut is the sole eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church for all Lebanon.
The Chaldean Catholic Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Jordan is a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Chaldean Catholic Church sui iuris covering (Trans)Jordan.
The Chaldean Catholic Territory Dependent on(or Patriarchal Dependency of) the Patriarch of Jerusalem is a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Chaldean Catholic Church sui iuris covering the Holy land.
Hirta was an Ancient city and bishopric in Mesopotamia which only remains as a Latin Catholic titular see.
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