St. Mary's Cathedral, Diyarbakır

The St. Mary's Cathedral [1] (Turkish: Mary'nin Katedrali ) also called Zywiec Cathedral is a Catholic Church that follows the Chaldean or East Syriac Rite and is located in Diyarbakır in the province of the same name and in southeast Turkey, in a region with a large Kurdish population.

St. Mary's Cathedral
Mary'nin Katedrali
LocationDiyarbakır
Country Turkey
DenominationCatholic church (Chaldean rite)
Administration
DioceseChaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Amida

The cathedral is the main church of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Amida (Archieparchia Amidensis Chaldaeorum) which emerged as eparchy in 1553 in the pontificate of Pope Paul IV and whose last bishop had to leave the place in 1915, it was restored in 1966 with its status Current through the bull "Chaldaici ritus" of Pope Paul VI.[2]

See also

References
  1. Cathedral of St. Mary in Diarbekir
  2. Cheney, David M. "Diarbekir (Amida) (Archeparchy) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2017-01-25.

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