Archdiocese of Hierapolis in Syria
The archdiocese 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. It was traditionally the fifth see in dignity under the Patriarch of Antioch. Under the Patriarch Athanasius I in the sixth century, it had nine suffragan bishoprics.
During the Crusades, a Latin archbishop of Hierapolis was established at Dülük. He usually resided in Tell Bashir, as did the Syriac Orthodox bishops in the Crusader period. The diocese was set up between 1131 and 1134 by Count Joscelin II of Edessa. It was subject to the Latin Patriarch of Antioch. It had two suffragan sees, Marash and Kesoun. It was effectively lost by 1151.
Bishops
Greek Orthodox bishops
- Philotimus, attended the Council of Nicaea
- Theodotus, attended the Council of Constantinople
- Alexander, attended the Council of Ephesus, deposed for heresy
- Panolbius, succeeded Alexander
- John, succeeded Panolbius
- Stephen I, succeeded John in 446, still in office in 456
- Cyrus, deposed 485
- Philoxenus, ordained in 485 by Peter the Fuller, died in 523
- Theodore, attended the Council of Constantinople
- Stephen II, a contemporary of Evagrius Scholasticus who wrote a biography of Saint Golinduch
- Agapius
Syriac Orthodox bishops
- Thomas of Harqel
- Sergius
- Abram
- Simon
- John I
- Michael
- Theodore
- James
- Timothy
- Philoxenus I Mathusalah
- Philoxenus II
- Ignatius
- John II
- Philoxenus III
Latin archbishops
- Franco, attached his seal to a document of 1134
- Julien-François-Pierre Carmené
- Louis-François Sueur
- Angelo Maria Dolci
- Tommaso Trussoni
- Ermenegildo Florit
- Antonio del Giudice