Tel Patriq was a diocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church near Melitene (Malatya), attested during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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Location
Tel Patriq was a locality near Melitene (modern Malatya), on the west bank of the Euphrates river, in Turkey.
Bishops of Tel Patriq
Five eleventh- and twelfth-century bishops of Tel Patriq are mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian.
Some of these bishops are mentioned again in other sources. Dionysius (1004/30) was taken to Constantinople in 1029 with the patriarch Yohannan VII bar ΚΏAbdon on the orders of the Byzantine emperor Romanus III Argyrus, and was imprisoned in an attempt to force him to make a Chalcedonian confession of faith. He was later released and returned to govern his diocese. Timothy (1058/1063) consecrated the patriarch Athanasius VII in the church of Rahta in Melitene in 1091.
The diocese of Tel Patriq is not again mentioned after 1091, and probably lapsed during the late-twelfth or thirteenth century.