Hirta, Mesopotamia Hirta, Mesopotamia Hirta was an Ancient city and bishopric in Mesopotamia which only remains as a Latin Catholic titular see. Hirta, now completely ruined, lied near modern Iraq's city of Najaf. It is documented as diocese of the Oriental Assyrian Church between 410 and 1012, directly dependent on its Catholicos-Patriarch of Seleucia-Ctesifonte. A dozen of its Eparch (bishops) are attested, including : The diocese was nominally restored in July 2004.07 as Latin Titular See of Hirta (Latin - Curiate Italian) / Hirten(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, "including an
History of Mesopotamia the Roman Empire. Christianity as well as Mandeism entered Mesopotamia from the 1st to 3rd centuries AD, and flourished, particularly in Assyria (Assuristan in Sassanid Persian), which became the center of the Assyrian Church of the East and a flourishing Syriac Christian tradition which remains to this day. A number of Neo-Assyrian kingdoms arose, in particular Adiabene. The Sassanid Empire and Byzantine Mesopotamia finally fell to the Rashidun army under Khalid ibn al-Walid in the 630s. After the Arab-Islamic conquest of the mid-7th century AD, Mesopotamia saw an influx of non native Arabs and later also Turkic peoples. The city