Category
page 1Christianity in the Sasanian Empire
St. Hripsime
church
Battle of Avarayr
451 battle
Nvarsak Treaty
484 treaty between Armenia and the Sasanian Empire
School of Nisibis
Christian catechetical school
Mar Mattai monastery
Monastery in Iraq
Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Council that legalized the Christian Church in Sassanid Empire (410)
Cathedral of Avan
cultural heritage monument of Armenia

maphrian
thumb|right|upright=0.9|Baselios Joseph I, the current Maphrian of the East in the [[Syriac Orthodox Church]]
The Maphrian ( or maphryono), is the second-highest rank in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Syriac Orthodox Church, right below that of patriarch. The office of a maphrian is a maphrianate. There have been three maphrianates in the history of the Syriac Orthodox Church and one, briefly, in the Syriac Catholic Church.
Synod of Beth Lapat
484 council of the Church of the East, held in Gondishapur, Persia
First Council of Dvin
Nestorian Schism
schism between the Christian churches of Sassanid Persia affiliated with Nestorius and churches that rejected him, arising out of a Christological dispute, caused by the Council of Ephesus (431)
Second Council of Dvin
Fourth Council of Dvin
Third Council of Dvin
Church council
Synodicon Orientale
compilation of synods of the Church of the East