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    The Diocese of Marga was an East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East. The diocese was included in the metropolitan province of Adiabene, and is attested...
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    list of East Syriac dioceses supposedly in existence by 225. References to bishops in other sources confirm the existence of many of these dioceses, but...
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    response to West Syriac competition in the Mosul region in the 7th century. The diocese of Marga persisted into the 14th century, but the diocese of Salakh is...
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    Roman Empire. The first recorded Christian mission to China was led by the Syriac monk known in Chinese as Alopen. Alopen's mission arrived in the Chinese...
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  • Diocese of Adarbaigan was one of the classical East Syriac dioceses of the Church of the East. The diocese, attested between the fifth and eighth centuries...
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    ecclesiastical province of Nisibis (Syriac: Nisibin, ܢܨܝܒܝܢ, often abbreviated to Soba, ܨܘܒܐ) had a number of suffragan dioceses at different periods in its history...
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    as 17 dioceses under a "Metropolitan of the East" or "Maphrian", holding the highest rank in the Syriac Orthodox Church after that of the Syriac Orthodox...
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  • Thomas of Marga, (Classical Syriac: ܬܐܘܡܐ ܒܪ ܝܥܩܘܒ, Taomá bár Yaˁqub) was an East Syriac bishop and author of an important monastic history in Syriac, who...
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  • The Diocese of Salakh was an East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East in the metropolitan province of Adiabene, attested in the eighth and ninth centuries...
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  • East Syriac settlement in these districts between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries the traditional dioceses of Beth Nuhadra, Beth Bgash, Marga (Tella...
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  • The Diocese of Tirhan was an East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East, within the central ecclesiastical Province of the Patriarch. The diocese is...
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    was an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the fifth and fourteenth centuries. The region of Beth Garmai (Syriac: ܒܝܬܓܪܡܝ)...
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    the Fars region itself, this East Syriac ecclesiastical province also included several dioceses in Arabia and a diocese for the island of Soqotra. According...
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  • province had three suffragan dioceses, at Karka d'Maishan (Syriac: ܟܪܟܐ ܕܡܝܫܢ), Rima (Syriac: ܪܝܡܐ) and Nahargur (Syriac: ܢܗܪܓܘܪ). The last metropolitan...
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    the tenth century, the Syriac Orthodox Church had around 20 metropolitan dioceses and a little over a hundred suffragan dioceses. By the seventeenth century...
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  • Gomel and Marga) was a diocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church. Bishops of Gumal are attested between the sixth and tenth centuries, but the diocese may have...
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    the East Syriac diocese of Beth Nuhadra, whose bishops resided in the small town of Tel Hesh near Alqosh, and those in the Gomel valley in the diocese of...
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  • the diocese of Marga, one of the suffragan dioceses in the metropolitan province of Adiabene. This diocese, frequently mentioned in Thomas of Marga's Book...
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  • was an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East, between the fifth and eleventh centuries, with several known suffragan dioceses. At least...
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  • The Maphrian (Syriac: ܡܦܪܝܢܐ, romanized: maphryānā or maphryono), originally known as the Grand Metropolitan of the East and also known as the Catholicos...
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  • The Diocese of Shigar and Beth ʿArabaye was an East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East in the metropolitan province of Nisibis, centred on the town...
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  • Hulwan was an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the eighth and twelfth centuries, with suffragan dioceses for Dinawar...
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    dioceses of the Church of the East are listed at: Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318 Dioceses of the Church of the East, 1318–1552 Dioceses of...
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  • Diocese of Kashkar, sometimes called Kaskar, was the senior diocese in the Church of the East's Province of the Patriarch. It see was in the city of Kashkar...
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  • Dadisho of Mount Izla (category Syriac Christians)
    disciples, including Sahrowai, the future bishop of Arzun. He moved to the diocese of Marga and lived seven years in the monastery of Risha under Abbot Stephen...
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  • Beth Huzaye (Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܗܘܙܝܐ) or ʿIlam was an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East, between the fifth and fourteenth centuries...
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  • the East and Malankara Metropolitan Angamali West Orthodox Diocese Angamaly Orthodox Diocese Kolkata Orthodox Diocese Syriac Orthodox Church Dioceses of...
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    Mor Mattai Monastery (category Articles containing Syriac-language text)
    Dayro d-Mor Mattai (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܡܬܝ; Arabic: دير مار متى; The Monastery of St. Matthew) is a Syriac Orthodox Church monastery on Mount Alfaf in...
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  • an East Syriac metropolitan province of the Church of the East, between the eighth and twelfth centuries. The province of Rai had a suffragan diocese for...
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  • Timothy I of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (category Articles containing Syriac-language text)
    The Historia Monastica of Thomas, Bishop of Marga, AD 840 (London, 1893) Wright, W., A Short History of Syriac Literature (London, 1894) Timothy I, Dialogue...
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