Bishop of Tanis
The bishop of Tanis was the head of the
Roman Catholic Church since the Middle Ages
.
martyrologies, the sibling saints Mary, Martha and Lycarion were martyred at Tanis.[1] This tradition, however, is unreliable.[2] Image from the Menologion of Basil II
.Tanis declined in importance relative to its seaport of
Islamic geographers still considered it one of the most fertile places in Egypt with a pleasant climate. The city was ultimately abandoned, the inhabitants even moving their dead to Tinnis, which itself was abandoned in 1192.[3]
Tanis was a
James of Vitry on the Fifth Crusade recorded that Tanis was a diocese in the metropolitan province of Damietta.[5]
At the time of the
Melitian named Eudaemon. He is mentioned in letters of Bishop Melitius of Lycopolis and Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria. In a letter written fourteen years later in 339, Athanasius indicates that the reigning bishop was a certain Theodore, who had succeeded Elias.[2] In 362, the bishop was Hermion (Hermaeon).[4]
At the
Miaphysite, he spoke up in defence of Eutyches[8] and against Eusebius of Dorylaeum and Flavian of Constantinople at Ephesus.[9] He was signatory to the acts of Ephesus that were overturned at Chalcedon.[10] At Chalcedon he was one of the thirteen Egyptian bishops (out of twenty) who presented a petition defending their orthodoxy to the emperors Marcian and Valentinian III. It was read out before the council during the fourth session.[11]
By 458 the bishop of Tanis was a certain Paul.
See also
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth
References
- ^ Hippolyte Delehaye, Les martyrs d'Égypte (Société des Bollandistes, 1923), pp. 67, 86.
- ^ a b Roderic L. Mullen, The Expansion of Christianity: A Gazetteer of its First Three Centuries (Brill, 2004), p. 286–87.
- ^ E. A. Wallis Budge, The Nile: Notes For Travellers In Egypt, 4th ed. (T. Cook, 1895), p. 135.
- ^ The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 14. (Robert Appleton Company, 1912).
- ^ Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate (eds.), Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th centuries (Ashgate, 2013), p. 121.
- ^ Richard Price and Michael Gaddis (eds.), The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, 3 vols. (Liverpool University Press, 2005), vol. 1, p. 146.
- ^ The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, vol. 1, p. 126.
- ^ The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, vol. 1, p. 289.
- ^ The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, vol. 1, pp. 355–56.
- ^ The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, vol. 1, p. 362.
- ^ The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, vol. 2, pp. 147–149.
- ^ Michel Le Quien, Oriens Christianus in quatuor patriarchatus digestus (Paris, 1740), pp. 535–538.
- ^ Samuel Moawad, "Coptic Historiography", in Gawdat Gabra (ed.), Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2014), p. 13.