city
Herat
Herat, Afghanistan · Silk Road / overland route
34.346, 62.189
Attested. Attested in synod lists and Syriac chronicles.
Bishop Yazdoi of Herat attended the synod of 424, and Herat became a Church of the East metropolitan see by 585. In the 7th century Jacobite (Syriac Orthodox) bishoprics were also set up at Herat for deportees from Edessa. The last known East Syriac metropolitan, Giwargis, lived in the 1060s.
Source stance: insider. Church synod lists and chronicles.
People and groups named here
- Yazdoi of Herat (424)
- Giwargis (last known metropolitan, 11th century)
Related places
Sources
- Pleiades place 961874: Alexandria Ariorum/Artacavan/Harey
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- CHRISTIANITY iii. In Central Asia and Chinese Turkestan
Nicholas Sims-Williams, Encyclopaedia Iranica. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318 (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.