凯撒利亚-巴勒斯坦教区历史悠久，是有史以来最早设立的基督教主教区之一。该教区的记录（希腊语：“administration”）

The diocese of Caesarea-Palaestina is ancient – one of the earliest Christian bishoprics ever established. Records of the diocese (Greek: ‘administration’)

可追溯至公元2世纪,其主教区later升格为都会教区。在拜占庭统治时期,该教区是第一巴勒斯坦省的都会区。 Note: "later" was left untranslated by mistake; corrected version: 可追溯至公元2世纪,其主教区后来升格为都会教区。在拜占庭统治时期,该教区是第一巴勒斯坦省的都会区。

date as far back as the 2nd century and its bishopric became a metropolitan see. Under the Byzantines the diocese was the metropolis of Palaestina Prima.

最初,它直接隶属于安条克教会,而安条克教会是拜占庭早期五大基督教教会之一。5世纪中叶,卡尔西登公会议(见下文)授予埃利亚·卡皮托利纳的全巴勒斯坦教会自主权和独立地位,并赋予其对"三个巴勒斯坦"的最高教会管辖权。此后许多世纪里,凯撒利亚-巴勒斯坦的大主教教会一直视自己为"母教会",并自认为巴勒斯坦各教会中的"平等者中的首席"。

It was initially directly subject to the Church of Antioch, one of the five major Christian churches during the early Byzantine period. After the All Palestine ecclesia of Aelia Capitolina was granted by autocephaly and independence in the mid-5th century by the Council of Chalcedon (see below), with top ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the ‘Three Palestines’, for many centuries the metropolitan Church of Caesarea-Palaestina continued to see itself as a ‘mother church’ and as ‘first among equals’ of the churches of Palestine.

该教区最杰出的主教是凯撒利亚的优西比乌，他是出席325年第一次尼西亚大公会议的最著名主教之一。如今，历史悠久的凯撒利亚-巴勒斯坦大都会教区，即凯撒利亚-巴勒斯坦总主教教区，由现代东正教巴勒斯坦教会保存。凯撒利亚-巴勒斯坦总主教教区也是天主教会的一个拉丁文虚衔教区（Segreteria di Stato Vaticano 2013: 867；Riley-Smith 1978）。一个虚衔（非教区）

The most distinguished bishop of the diocese was Eusebius of Caesarea, who was among the most famous bishops to attend the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Today the historic metropolitan see of Caesarea-Palaestina, or the archiepiscopal see of Caesarea in Palaestina, is preserved by the modern Orthodox Palestinian Church. The Archiepiscopal See of Caesarea-Palaestina is also known as a Latin titular see of the Catholic Church (Segreteria di Stato Vaticano 2013: 867; Riley-Smith 1978). A titular (non-diocesan)

天主教的大主教或总主教是一种头衔，用来指称一个已不再运作的教区。这类教区往往曾经繁荣，但其土地后来被穆斯林征服。\n\n后来，天主教会认为"名义教区"的设立对于保存凯撒利亚滨海（Caesarea Maritima）等古代总主教教堂的历史记忆十分重要。自1432年名义上的凯撒利亚-巴勒斯坦主教区设立，至1967年间，共有二十八位天主教主教担任过这一荣誉职位。从1975年到2012年，东正教凯撒利亚大都会主教是巴西利奥斯·布拉察斯（Basilios Blatsos），他同时也是第一巴勒斯坦的总督察，隶属于东正教耶路撒冷牧首区（前身为埃利亚·卡皮托利纳牧首区）的管辖。

metropolitan or archbishop of the Catholic Church is a title used to signify a diocese that no longer functions, often because the diocese once flourished but the land was conquered by Muslims.17 In later days, ‘titular see’ was seen by the Catholic Church as important to preserve the historic memories of ancient metropolitan churches such as that of Caesarea Maritima. In the period between the creation of this titular Bishopry of Caesarea-Palaestina in 1432 and 1967 twenty-eight Catholic bishops have occupied this honorary position. From 1975 to 2012 the Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Caesarea was Basilios Blatsos, who was also an Exarch of Palaestina Prima, under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (formerly the Patriarchate of Aelia Capitolina).

在罗马的巴勒斯坦行省中,耶路撒冷被皇帝哈德良更名为埃利亚·卡皮托利纳。在拜占庭统治时期,耶路撒冷这一名称基本上消失了;官方上,埃利亚·卡皮托利纳成为该城的通用名称(Drijvers 2004: 2)。在尼西亚公会议上,尤西比乌和埃利亚·卡皮托利纳主教马加利乌斯,在另外十七位主教的陪同下出席,这些主教代表了巴勒斯坦(第一巴勒斯坦行省和第二巴勒斯坦行省)的所有主要城市(Wallace-Hadrill 1982: 165)。18

In Roman Provincia Palaestina Jerusalem was renamed by Emperor Hadrian as Aelia Capitolina. Under the Byzantines the name Jerusalem became largely extinct; officially Aelia Capitolina became the common name for the city (Drijvers 2004: 2). At the Council of Nicaea Eusebius and Macarius, the Bishop of Aelia Capitolina, were accompanied by seventeen other bishops representing all the major cities of Palestine (Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Secunda) (Wallace-Hadrill 1982: 165).18

在教会事务上，巴勒斯坦城市空间的精英与周边乡村有所互动，且往往居于主导地位。然而，事实上，这次大公会议却赋予了埃利亚卡皮托利纳（耶路撒冷）主教

In ecclesiastical matters, the elites of urban spaces in Palestine interacted with, and often dominated, their surrounding countryside. In the event, however, the council gave the Bishop of Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem)

巴勒斯坦主教中的首席地位，同时保留凯撒利亚教会的礼仪适用于整个大巴勒斯坦地区。

the first place among the bishops of Palestine, while leaving the Rites of the Church of Caesarea applicable to the whole of greater Palestine.

凯撒利亚-巴勒斯坦仍保有其作为大都会的地位，统辖埃利亚·卡皮托利纳教会，并直接隶属于安条克教会。

Caesarea-Palaestina also retained its position as metropolis to the Church of Aelia Capitolina and was directly subject to the Church of Antioch.

这一由尼西亚会议造成的模糊局面，随后被埃利亚·卡皮托利纳主教马克西姆斯所利用，他为巴勒斯坦任命主教，并为整个国家召集了一次主教会议。这种局面不可避免地引发了埃利亚·卡皮托利纳教会与更古老的凯撒利亚-巴勒斯坦教会之间的冲突。后者依然存在，并在一段时间内继续主张对巴勒斯坦拥有教会首位权（Du Pin and Wotton 2010: 107）。

This ambiguous situation created by Nicaea was subsequently used by the Bishop of Aelia Capitolina, Maximus, to ordain bishops for Palestine and to assemble a council of bishops for the whole country. Inevitably this situation brought about conflicts between the Church of Aelia Capitolina and the older (ancient) Church of Caesarea-Palaestina. The latter persisted and continued to claim for a while ecclesiastical primacy over Palestine (Du Pin and Wotton 2010: 107).