Archeparchy of Diarbekir, Amida
Amiden(sis) Chaldaeorum
Archeparchy of the patriarchate · Chaldean Church · Diarbekir, Amida, Türkiye
Chaldean Catholic archeparchy for all of Turkey, first established in 1531 as the Diocese of Amid and promoted to archeparchy on 3 January 1966 after decades of vacancy following the Assyrian genocide. It is immediately subject to the Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon; the historic seat is St. Mary's Cathedral in Diyarbakir, though the archbishop resides in Istanbul.
The see
- Rank
- Archeparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Chaldean Church
- Erected
- 1531
- Latin
- Amiden(sis) Chaldaeorum
- Annuario code
- 001001298
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 7,640
- Population
- 2,013
- Priests
- 2
- Catholics per priest
- 3,820
- Extent
- 783,562 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Sabri Anar
- Born
- 1 January 1966
- Birthplace
- Uludere
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral, Diyarbakir stands in Diarbekir, Amida, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archevêché Chaldéen, Hamalbaşi Caddesi 20, Galatasaray, 34435 Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Türkiye
- Telephone
- [0212]252.34.49
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].