city
Hulwan
Sarpol-e Zahab, Iran · Persia & Church of the East (supplement)
34.465, 45.856
Attested. Attested in synod acts and the lists of East Syriac provinces.
Hulwan
Sarpol-e Zahab
Hulwan, at the gateway from Mesopotamia to the Iranian plateau, was a Church of the East bishopric. It became the seat of a metropolitan province between the 8th and 12th centuries, with suffragans at Dinawar, Hamadan and Nihawand.
Source stance: insider. Church records.
People and groups named here
- Metropolitans of Hulwan
Sources
- Hulwan (East Syriac ecclesiastical province) (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 903043: [Hulwan]/Valashfarr/Beth Lashpar
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Hulwan (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.