Bar Shebya
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Bar Shebya; BAR ŜEWYA
identifier: http://syriaca.org/person/1165
identifier: 81
sex: male
floruit: 424
In hagiography: Bar Ŝewya or Bar Shabba was a solitary and first bishop of Merv; he was deported from Byzantine territory to Ctesiphon. The sister or wife of Shapor, Shirawan, became Christian and built a church there which Bar Shabba consecrated.
Saints Syriaques BAR ŜEWYA 81
Chronique de Seert I, 143-46
Mārī, 27 arabe.
J .M. Fiey Le Museon 75-79
J.-M. Sauget BS II, 836-37
N. Sims-Williams Baršabba Encyclopaedia Iranica III (1989), 823
S.P. Brock Bar Shabba/Mār Shabba, First Bishop of Merv M. Tamcke et al., Syrisches Christentum Weltweit. Festschrift W. Hage (Munster, 1995), 190-201