Sehna, Diocese of

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• Diocese of Sehna —     Diocese of Sehna     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Diocese of Sehna     (SIHNAH or SEHANENSIS).     A Chaldean see, governed by a patriarchal administrator with episcopal rank. It was erected in 1853, its subjects being partly in Persia and… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Chaldean Diocese of Amid — The black basalt Roman walls of Amid (Diyarbakir) The Diocese of Amid (Diyarbakir) was a diocese or archdiocese of the Chaldean Church from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. From at least the 13th century the city of Amid had been part of… …   Wikipedia

• Mardin (Chaldean Diocese) — Mardin was a diocese of the Chaldean Church from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The diocese lapsed in 1941.[1] Contents 1 Background 2 The Chaldean bishops of Mardin 3 Population …   Wikipedia

• Marga (East Syrian Diocese) — The Diocese of Marga was one of the dioceses of the Church of the East. The diocese was included in the metropolitan province of Adiabene, and is attested between the eighth and fourteenth centuries. Towards the end of the thirteenth century the… …   Wikipedia

• Tirhan (East Syrian Diocese) — The Diocese of Tirhan was a diocese of the Church of the East s Province of the Patriarch. The diocese is attested between the sixth and fourteenth centuries. Contents 1 History 2 Bishops of Tirhan 3 Topographical survey …   Wikipedia

• Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tehran — The Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tehran (Latin: Archidioecesis Teheranensis Chaldaeorum) is a church in Tehran. The Church was erected in 1853 in the city of Sanandaj, Iran for the Iranian Christian Senaya.[1] In 1944, the… …   Wikipedia

• Dioceses of the Church of the East, 1552–1913 — After the 1552 schism in the Church of the East, the Nestorian and Chaldean sections of the church each had, by the end of the 19th century, around twelve dioceses each. The country of the Church of the East, 1913 Contents 1 Background …   Wikipedia

• Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318 — Syrian, Armenian and Latin bishops debate Christian doctrine in the Crusader city of Acre, late 13th century At the height of its power, in the 10th century AD, the dioceses of the Church of the East numbered well over a hundred and stretched… …   Wikipedia

• Nisibis (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province) — The ruins of the East Syrian church of Mar Yaʿqob in Nisibis The Nisibis region was a metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the fifth and seventeenth centuries. The province of Nisibis (Syriac: Nisibin, ܢܨܝܒܝܢ, often abb …   Wikipedia

• Merv (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province) — Merv was a metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the fifth and eleventh centuries, with several known suffragan dioceses. Contents 1 Background 2 The diocese of Merv 3 The diocese of Herat 4 …   Wikipedia