page_title: Armenia (East Syriac diocese)
section_title: Bishops of Armenia
hierarchical_section_title: Armenia (East Syriac diocese) / Bishops of Armenia
context_page_description: Diocese of Armenia was an East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East between the fifth and fourteenth centuries. The diocese served members of the Church of the East in Armenia, and its bishops sat at Halat. The diocese is last mentioned in 1281, and probably lapsed in the fourteenth century during the disorders that attended the fragmentation of the Mongol empire.
context_section_description: The bishop Artashahr of Armenia was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Dadishoʿ in 424. At this period the diocese, probably based on Halat, was not assigned to a metropolitan province.
  The bishop Yaʿqob of Halat, a writer mentioned in the list of Syriac authors compiled in the fourteenth century by ʿAbdishoʿ Bar Brikha, flourished during the reign of the patriarch Pethion (731–40).
  An unnamed bishop of Armenia was present at the consecration of the patriarch ʿAbdishoʿ II in 1074.
  A note of 1137 by the copyist of the Mukhtasar mentions the recent suppression of the metropolitan province of Bardaʿa (in Azerbaijan) and the attribution of responsibility for the remaining Christians in the province to Eliya, bishop of Halat.
  The bishop Yuwanis of Halat was appointed metropolitan of Kashgar and Nevaketh by the patriarch Eliya III (1176–90).
  The bishop Sliba-zkha of Halat was present at the consecration of the patriarch Denha I in 1265.
  The bishop Hnanishoʿ of Halat was present at the consecration of the patriarch Yahballaha III in 1281.
caption: Lake Van viewed from space. The town of Halat can be clearly seen towards the left of the picture, on the northern shore of the lake
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