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In hagiography: Bar Ŝewya or Bar Shabba was a solitary and first bishop of Merv; he was deported from Byzantine territory to Ctesiphon. The sister or wife of Shapor, Shirawan, became Christian and built a church there which Bar Shabba consecrated.

Names

  • Bar Shebya
  • BAR ŜEWYA1

Floruit

424

Sex

male1

Notes

In hagiography: Bar Ŝewya or Bar Shabba was a solitary and first bishop of Merv; he was deported from Byzantine territory to Ctesiphon. The sister or wife of Shapor, Shirawan, became Christian and built a church there which Bar Shabba consecrated.
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 81. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Addai Scher, Chronicle Of Seert, Patrologia Orientalis, 2015, http://archive.org/details/ScherChronicleOfSeertcombined1, vol: Ip: 143-46. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 4 Mārī Ibn Sulaymān and E Gismondi, Aḫbār faṭārika kursī al-mašriq min kitāb al-maǧdal (Rome: C. de Luigi, 1899), p: ٢٧. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Chrétientés Syriaques Du Ḫorāsān et Du Ségestān, Le Muséon 86:1-2 (1973): 75–104, p: 75-79. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: IIp: 836-37. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Nicholas Sims-Williams, BARŠABBĀ, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1988, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/barsabba-legendary-bishop-of-marv-and-founder-of-the-christian-church-in-eastern-iran, vol: IIIp: 823. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Sebastian P. Brock, Bar Shabba/Mar Shabbay, First Bishop of Merv, in Syrisches Christentum Weltweit: Studien Zur Syrischen Kirchengeschichte. Festschrift Für Wolfgang Hage, ed. Martin Tamcke, Wolfgang Schwaigert, and Egbert Schlarb, Studien Zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte 1 (Münster: LIT, 1995), 190–201, p: 190-201. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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