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Mariamme
was a city in the late
Roman province
of
Syria I
, corresponding to present-day Qal'at El-Hosn or
Krak des Chevaliers
.
Hecataeus of Miletus
is quoted by
Stephanus of Byzantium
describing Mariamme as a
Phoenician
city.
[1]
[2]
Arrian
mentions Mariamme as a city under the dominion of the king of
Arwad
in the time of
Alexander the Great
.
[3]
The bishopric of Mariamme is no longer a residential
episcopal see
and is therefore included in the
Catholic Church
's list of
titular sees
.
[4]
The first
titular bishop
was appointed to the see in 1923 in the person of Martin Rucker Sotomayor, who had been named the
Apostolic Vicar
for the
Vicariate Apostolic of Tarapaca
in
Chile
.
The current holder of the title is
Claudiu-Lucian Pop
, a
curial bishop
of the
Romanian Greek Catholic Church
.
[5]
Previous titular bishops include
Ceslaus Sipovich
.
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Stephanus of Byzantium
,
Cum annotationibus L. Holsteinii, A. Berkelii et Th. de Pinedo. Vol. I, cum Guilielmi Dindorfii praefatione, cui insunt lectiones libri Vratislav
, Leipzig, 1825,
p. 286
- ^
Elayi, Josette (1982).
"Studies in Phoenician Geography during the Persian Period"
.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
.
41
(2): 88.
ISSN
0022-2968
.
- ^
Arrian
,
Anabasis of Alexander
, 2.13 (see in
the Greek source
and
English translation
)
- ^
Annuario Pontificio 2013
(Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1
), p. 923
- ^
"Mariamme (Titular See)"
.
Catholic Hierarchy
. Retrieved
16 December
2012
.