city
Karka d-Beth Slokh
Kirkuk, Iraq · Persia & Church of the East
35.469, 44.396
Attested. The see is attested in synod acts. The details of the martyr stories are hagiographic.
Karka d-Beth Slokh was the metropolitan see of Beth Garmai in the Church of the East. A Syriac local history and martyr acts remember mass martyrdoms under the Sasanian kings, especially the persecution under Yazdegerd II in the 440s.
Source stance: insider. Syriac 'History of Karka d-Beth Slokh' and martyr acts.
People and groups named here
- Tahmazgard (martyr, 446, per tradition)
- Martyrs of Karka d-Beth Slokh
Sources
- Karka d-Beth Slokh (e-GEDSH)
Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, electronic ed., Beth Mardutho. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 893941: Arrapha/Karkha de Beth Seluk
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Kirkuk (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.