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Faras (Pachoras)
Faras (site now under Lake Nasser/Nubia), Sudan (Egypt border) · Africa: Nubia
22.204, 31.499
Attested. Attested by excavation, inscriptions and the bishop list. The site itself is now underwater.
Faras was the religious center of the Nubian kingdom of Nobatia, with a bishopric from the 7th century and a great cathedral rebuilt in the 8th. Polish excavators recovered about 169 wall paintings and a list of bishops before Lake Nasser flooded the site in the 1960s. The murals are now in Warsaw and Khartoum.
Source stance: neutral. Archaeology and inscriptions.
People and groups named here
- Bishop Paulos (cathedral rebuilding)
- Kazimierz Michałowski (excavator)
Sources
- Faras (Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia)
William Y. Adams; The Coptic Encyclopedia (Macmillan 1991), Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Faras Murals (Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia)
William Y. Adams; The Coptic Encyclopedia (Macmillan 1991), Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 795838: Pachoras
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.