Kfar Tab (West Syriac Diocese)

Map showing the ancient sites of Upper Mesopotamia and Syria. Kfar Tab is located on the west.

Kfar Tab (Syriac: ܟܦܪܛܐܒ‎ Kafrṭāb) was a diocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church near Apamea in Syria, attested in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Four of its bishops are mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian.

Sources

The main primary source for the Syriac Orthodox bishops of Kfar Tab is the record of episcopal consecrations appended to Volume III of the Chronicle of the Syriac Orthodox patriarch Michael the Syrian (1166–99). In this Appendix Michael listed most of the bishops consecrated by the Syriac Orthodox patriarchs of Antioch between the ninth and twelfth centuries. Twenty-eight Syriac Orthodox patriarchs sat during this period, and in many cases Michael was able to list the names of the bishops consecrated during their reigns, their monasteries of origin, and the place where they were consecrated.

Bishops of Kfar Tab

Four Jacobite bishops of Kfar Tab are mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian.[1]

NameFromConsecrated in the reign ofPlace of consecration
Basilnot knownDionysius VI (1088–91)not known
IgnatiusMonastery of Saint Mark's, JerusalemAthanasius VI bar Khamara (1091–1129)not known
CyrilMonastery of Mar Bar Sawma, MeliteneAthanasius VI bar Khamara (1091–1129)Monastery of Dovair, Antioch
PhiloxenusMonastery of Dovair, AntiochAthanasius VII bar Qutreh (1139–66)Kaishum

The diocese of Kfar Tab seems to have lapsed before the end of the twelfth century.

Notes

  1. ↑ Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, iii. 451–82 and 502

References

  • Abbeloos, Jean Baptiste; Lamy, Thomas Joseph, eds. (1877). Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (3 vols). Paris.
  • Fiey, Jean Maurice (1993). Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. Beirut: Orient-Institut.
  • Jean-Baptiste Chabot, Chronique de Michel le Syrien, Patriarche Jacobite d'Antiche (1166-1199). Éditée pour la première fois et traduite en francais I-IV (1899;1901;1905;1910; a supplement to volume I containing an introduction to Michael and his work, corrections, and an index, was published in 1924. Reprinted in four volumes 1963, 2010).


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