Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson (eds.), "Bar Shebya" in last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1165
    
        
            
                
                    Bar
          Shebya
                    BAR ŜEWYA
                    http://syriaca.org/person/1165
                    81
                    male
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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.
                    
                        Saints Syriaques
                        BAR ŜEWYA
                        
                        81
                    
                    
                        Chronique de Seert
                        
                        I, 143-46
                    
                    Mārī, 27 arabe.
                    
                        
                            
                                J .M.
                                Fiey
                            
                        
                        Le Museon
                        
                        75-79
                    
                    
                        
                            
                                J.-M.
                                Sauget
                            
                        
                        BS
                        
                        II,
               836-37
                    
                    
                        
                            
                                N.
                                Sims-Williams
                            
                        
                        Baršabba
                        Encyclopaedia Iranica
                        
                        III (1989), 823
                    
                    
                        
                            
                                S.P.
                                Brock
                            
                        
                        Bar Shabba/Mār Shabba, First Bishop of Merv
                         M. Tamcke et
               al.,
                        Syrisches Christentum Weltweit. Festschrift W. Hage
                        
                        (Munster, 1995),
               190-201