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The Metropolate of Tyre or great Metropolate of Tyre () was a metropolitan episcopal seat of the Church of the first millennium or of the Pentarchy within the Patriarchate of Antioch. The metropolitan headquarters were in the city of Tyre, currently in Lebanon. The Metropolate of Tyre was part of the Orthodox Church after the Eastern Cysm and existed until the city was conquered by the Crusaders in 1124 and replaced by the Archdiocese of Tyre.

Territory
Tyre was an ancient metropolitan seat in Roman and Byzantine times dating from apostolic times. From Circa 198 it was the capital of the Roman province of Fenicia to its division (Circa 400), when it became the capital of Fenicia I in the civil diocese of the East. Circa 480 Tyre was by decision of the Patriarch Juan Codonato the first metropolis in precedence of the Patriarchate of Antioch.

According to the Antiochena Notitia, the only Episcopatuum Notitia of the Patriarchate of Antioch known, which is supposed to date from the second half of the and was prepared by the Patriarch Anastasio of Antioch (who ruled the Patriarchate twice between 559 and 570 and between 593 and 598) the Metropolitan of Tyre was extended along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea from the torrent of Nahal Kaziv (northern Israel) to the Litani River. This demarcation is in the Greek recension published in 1884 by Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus.

History

Shooting in the New Testament
The historical origin of the diocese dates back to the times of the New Testament, where it is mentioned in a proverb quoted by Jesus Christ himself (Matthew 11.21). According to the testimony of the Gospel of Luke (6,17), the preaching of Jesus Christ also included some faithful from the coast of Tyre and Sidon and Jesus himself went to the region of Tyre and Sidon (Mark 7: 24-31) where he performed the exorcism of the daughter of a sirophon woman. Some sources say he drank water with John sitting on a rock next to the South Ain spring (Tyre Source), which is also known as Ain Hiram, which bears the name of the Phoenician king. According to the Bible, Jesus healed a Gentile (Matthew 15: 21; Mark 7: 24) and from this region many went out to hear him preach (Mark 3: 8; Luke 6: 17, Matthew 11: 21-23). Apparently, some of those who followed him came from Tyre.

A Christian congregation was founded in Tyre shortly after the death of St Stephen. The Church of Tyre is mentioned in the book of Acts of the Apostles, as it was on the missionary path of the Apostle Paul on his return from his third missionary journey from Mileto to Caesarea in Palestine and Jerusalem (Acts 21,3-7). Paul found a community of disciples there and spent a week talking to them. According to Irene of Lyon against the heresy, Simon the Wizard was from Tyre.

Roman persecutions
The Vetus Martyrology Romanum recalls several saints and martyrs of Tyre: Bishop Tiranno and many other martyrs (20 February), St U