The city of Tarsus was a Syriac Orthodox archdiocese, attested between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.
In this Appendix Michael listed most of the bishops consecrated by the Syriac Orthodox patriarchs of Antioch between the ninth and twelfth centuries.
For the thirteenth century, Michael's lists are supplemented by several references in other Syriac Orthodox narrative sources.
Tarsus, famed in Christian tradition as the birthplace of Saint Paul, was the metropolis of the Chalcedonian ecclesiastical province of Cilicia Prima.
[8] The metropolitan Yohannan of Tarsus, 'from the monastery of Mar Hnanya', was among the fifteen bishops consecrated by the patriarch Philoxenus Nemrud (1283–92).