Edited sentence: A bishop of 'al-Qar and Nahrawan' became patriarch in 963, and then consecrated bishops for al-Radhan and for 'Nifr and al-Nil'.Eight of these dioceses already existed in the Sassanian period, but the diocese of Beth Waziq is first mentioned in the second half of the seventh century, and the dioceses of `Ukbara, al-Radhan, Nifr, and al-Qara were probably founded in the ninth century.The first bishop of `Ukbara whose name has been recorded, Hakima, was consecrated by the patriarch Sargis around 870, and bishops of al-Qara, al-Radhan and Nifr are first mentioned in the tenth century.There were thirteen dioceses in the province of the patriarch in 893:  Kashkar, al-‡irhan (‡rihan), Dair Hazql (an alternative name for al-Nu`maniya, the chief town in the diocese of Zabe), al-ira (irta), al-Anbar (Piroz Shabur), al-Sin (Shenna d’Beth Ramman), `Ukbara, al-Radhan, Nifr, al-Qara, 'Ba Daraya and Ba Kusaya' (Beth Daraye), `Abdasi (Nahargur), and al-Buwazikh (Konishabur or Beth Waziq)