Metropolitanate of Fars or Pars was an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the sixth and twelfth centuries. It was centered in what is now Fars province, the historic c
The ruins of Persepolis
Arch of Ctesiphon
Elijah of Nisibis
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Elijah, Eliya, or Elias of Nisibis was a cleric of the Church of the East, who served as bishop of Beth Nuhadra and archbishop of Nisibis. He has been called the most important Christian writer in Ara
Fars (East Syriac ecclesiastical province)
…al-Sin) metropolitan of Fars 'after the death of its metropolitan'. The metropolitan Yohannan, formerly bishop of Egypt, was metropolitan of Fars when Elijah of Nisibis completed his Chronography in 1018/19. The metropolitan ʿAbdishoʿ of Fars was present at the consecration of the patriarch ʿAbdishoʿ III in 1139…
The ruins of the medieval St Jacob Cathedral in present-day Nusaybin, Turkey
A 1524 manuscript edition of Elijah's Book of the Interpreter