See of Tyre
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The See of Tyre was one of the most ancient dioceses in Christianity. The existence of a Christian community here in the time of Saint Paul is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. Seated at Tyre, which was the capital of the Roman province of Phoenicia Prima, the bishopric was a metropolitan see. Its position was briefly challenged by the see of Berytus in the mid-5th century; but after 480/1 the metropolitan of Tyre established itself as the first (protothronos) of all those subject to the Patriarch of Antioch.
In the summer of 2017, a Greek mosaic measured at five-metres long was found west of the Sea of Galilee. The excavation was co-directed by historian Jacob Ashkenazi and archaeologist Mordechai Aviam and it named Irenaeus as bishop of Tyre. Since the inscription provides the date of the church's completion as 445, it gives credence to a date as early as 444 CE for his ordination.
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During the Crusades
Communion with the See of Rome was broken following the East–West Schism. When the crusaders conquered Tyre in 1124, the Eastern Orthodox archbishop withdrew to Constantinople and a Latin named Odo was appointed archbishop. However, he died the same year.
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