Edited sentence: Although the main East Syrian missionary impetus was eastwards, there were also East Syrian communities to the west of the Church's northern Mesopotamian heartland, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Cilicia and Cyprus.Cyprus was probably also the seat of an East Syrian bishop or metropolitan by the end of the thirteenth century.Damascus became the seat of a metropolitan in the seventh century, and the province had four suffragan dioceses in the ninth century:  Aleppo, Mambeg, Mopsuestia and Tarsus and Malatya.Egypt may still have had a East Syrian bishop in the thirteenth century, though the last reference to a bishop of Egypt is from the eleventh century.Jerusalem became a metropolitan diocese in the tenth century.No bishops of any of these dioceses are attested in the thirteenth century.The last-known metropolitan of Damascus flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century.There were East Syrian communities at Antioch, Tripolis and Acre in the 1240s,  and a metropolitan Abraham 'of Jerusalem and Tripolis' was present at the consecration of Yahballaha III in 1281, probably resident in the coastal city of Tripolis rather than Jerusalem