Diocese of Cephas

The Diocese of Cephas (in Latin Dioecesis Cephasena) is a suppressed seat in the Catholic Church.

[1] Cephas, located on the Tigris River in Tur Abdin, was an ancient episcopal seat of the Roman province of Mesopotamia in the diocese of the East.

It was part of the Patriarchate of Antioch and was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Amida, as attested by a 6th century Notitiae Episcopatuum, official documentation that furnishes the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church.

[3] Today Diocese of Cephas survives as a titular bishopric seat of the Catholic Church based in the Middle East.

The titular bishopric is presently suppressed and has remained vacant since May 5, 1974 with no further bishops assigned the title.