city
Rev Ardashir
Rishahr, near Bushehr, Iran · Persia & Church of the East
28.912, 50.837
Approximate location.
Attested. The see is well attested. Pleiades marks the identification of Rev Ardashir with the ruins at Rishahr as probable, not certain.
Rev Ardashir was the metropolitan see of Fars, the province of the Church of the East facing the Gulf. Its metropolitans oversaw the Gulf coast and Arabian sees (Beth Qatraye) until those got their own metropolitan in 676, and they long claimed authority over India too. A 5th-century bishop, Ma'na, is remembered for translating Syriac works into Persian.
Added from later research
cross-reference · 5th-9th c.
Fars sees on the sea and land routes
Rev Ardashir's province included Istakhr and Ardashir Khurrah (attested 424) and the Gulf dioceses. Patriarch Timothy I (780-823) removed India from the jurisdiction of Fars. See batch 3b: istakhr, siraf, tarut-dairin, samahij, sohar, kerala-thomas-christians.
attested. From synod acts and patriarchal records.
Source stance: insider. Church of the East synod acts and chronicles.
People and groups named here
- Ma'na of Rev Ardashir (5th century)
- Patriarch Timothy I
Related places
Sources
- Fars (e-GEDSH)
Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, electronic ed., Beth Mardutho. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 922711: [Rishahr]/Rev Ardashir?/Ionaka?
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Rishahr (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Fars (East Syriac ecclesiastical province) (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.