Mariamme

{{Infobox ancient site |name = Mariamme |native_name = |alternate_name = |image = |alt = |caption = |map_type = Syria |map_alt = |map_size = 250 |location = Syria |region = Homs Governorate |coordinates = {{coord|34.756944|36.294444|display=inline}} |type = |part_of = |length = |width = |area = |height = |builder = |material = |built = |abandoned = |epochs = |cultures = |dependency_of = |occupants = |event = |excavations = |archaeologists = |condition = |ownership = |management = |public_access = |website = |notes = }} '''Mariamme''' was a city in the late Roman province of Syria I, corresponding to present-day Qal'at El-Hosn or Krak des Chevaliers.

Hecataeus of Miletus is quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium describing Mariamme as a Phoenician city.<ref name="Stephanus">Stephanus of Byzantium, ''Cum annotationibus L. Holsteinii, A. Berkelii et Th. de Pinedo. Vol. I, cum Guilielmi Dindorfii praefatione, cui insunt lectiones libri Vratislav'', Leipzig, 1825, p. 286</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Elayi |first=Josette |date=1982 |title=Studies in Phoenician Geography during the Persian Period |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/544660 |journal=Journal of Near Eastern Studies |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=88 |doi=10.1086/372928 |jstor=544660 |issn=0022-2968|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Arrian mentions Mariamme as a city under the dominion of the king of Arwad in the time of Alexander the Great.<ref>Arrian, ''Anabasis of Alexander'', 2.13 (see in the Greek source and English translation)</ref>

The bishopric of Mariamme is no longer a residential episcopal see and is therefore included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 923</ref>

The first titular bishop was appointed to the see in 1923 in the person of Martín Rucker Sotomayor, who had been named the Apostolic Vicar for the Vicariate Apostolic of Tarapacá in Chile.

The current holder of the title is Claudiu-Lucian Pop, a curial bishop of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2m41.html|work=Catholic Hierarchy|title=Mariamme (Titular See)|accessdate=16 December 2012}}</ref>

Previous titular bishops include Ceslaus Sipovich.

==References== {{reflist}} Category:Phoenician cities Category:Arwad Category:Catholic titular sees in Asia