Christians in the Sasanian Empire

Armenian theologian and linguist (362–440)

5th-century Armenian historian

King of Iberia (440-502)

Aphrahat (c. 280–c. 345; , Ap̄rahaṭ, , , , and Latin Aphraates), venerated as Saint Aphrahat the Persian, was a third-century Syriac Christian author of Iranian descent from the Sasanian Empire, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice. All his known works, the Demonstrations, come from later on in his life. He was an ascetic and celibate, and was almost definitely a son of the covenant (an early Syriac form of communal monasticism). He may have been a bishop, and later Syriac tradition places him at the head of Mar Mattai Monas

first Iberian king from the Chosroid dynasty

Armenian saint

Christian martyr

Patriarch of the Church of the East

Shirin (; died 628) was wife of the Sasanian emperor Khosrow II (). In the revolution after the death of Khosrow's father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. Shirin fled with Khosrow to Syria, where they lived under the protection of Byzantine emperor Maurice.

Shushanik (; ; 440 – 475), also known as Shushanika or Vardandukht, was a Christian Armenian woman who was tortured to death by her husband Varsken in the town of Tsurtavi, Georgia. Since she died defending her right to profess Christianity, she is regarded as a martyr. Her martyrdom is described in her confessor Jacob’s hagiographic work, the oldest extant work of Georgian language literature. The hagiography details Shushanik's extensive resistance to imprisonment, isolation, torture and cruelty.

Assyrian writer and theologian (died 523)

Christian martyrs of the 3rd century

Juansher was the Mihranid prince of Caucasian Albania, ruling the principality from 637 to 669. He was the son and successor of Varaz Grigor ().

Arab poet (550-600)

Lakhmid king of al-Hirah (582 – c. 602)

Patriarch of the Church of the East at Seleucia-Ctesiphon

Assyrian writer

Iranian catholic priest (0400-0418)

Armenian form of Sergius

Bishop of the Church of the East

Doctor, saint

Persian saint

Narsai (sometimes spelt Narsay, Narseh or Narses; , name derived from Pahlavi Narsēh from Avestan Nairyō.saȵhō, meaning 'potent utterance'; ) was one of the foremost of the poet-theologians of the early Church of the East, perhaps equal in stature to Jacob of Serugh, both second only to Ephrem the Syrian. He is venerated as a saint in all the modern descendants of the Church of the East; the Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, and Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Saint Narsai is known as the 'Flute of the Holy Spirit.'

Armenian rebel

Persian saint

Sasanian Persian noblewoman and Christian martyr

Bademus (also known as Bademe and Vadim) was a rich, noble citizen of Bethlapeta in Persia, who founded a monastery nearby. He and some of his disciples were arrested and Bademus was martyred in the year 376; he was subsequently recognized as a saint.

Persian noblewoman

saint

Assyrian saint

Patriarch of the Church of the East

Babowai (also Babaeus or Mar Babwahi) (died 484) was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 457 to 484, during the reign of the Sassanid King Peroz I. Babowai was known for his pro-Byzantine leanings, for which he was often in conflict with other members of the anti-Byzantine Church of the East. He was executed in 484.

patriarch in the 5th century

Shahdost, also Sadoc, Sadoth () () was Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and primate of the Church of the East from 341 to 343 who resided in the Sasanian Empire. He was martyred during the great persecution of Shapur II. Like several other early bishops of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, he is included in the traditional list of patriarchs of the Church of the East. He is considered a saint in several Eastern Christian denominations.

Primate of the Church of the East from 399 to 410

king of Caucasian Albania

patriach of the Church of the East

Ahudemmeh was the Grand Metropolitan of the East in the Syriac Orthodox Church from 559 until his execution in 575. He was known as the Apostle of the Arabs, and is commemorated as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Patriarch of the Church of the East from 415 to 420

Patriarch of the Church of the East

Farbokht (or Marabokht) served briefly as bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, grand metropolitan and primate of the Church of the East in 421. He is included in the traditional list of patriarchs of the Church of the East.

Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon

bishop of Antiochia, 3rd century

Golindouch, Golindukht, Golindokht, or Dolindokht () (died 591) was a noble Persian lady who converted to Christianity, took the name Maria, and became a saint and martyr.

Persian philosopher

Iranian saint

Syriac Orthodox Maphrian and Theologian

Syriac Christian

Syrian theologian and writer, leader of the theological school in Nisibis in the second half of the 6th century

patriarch

Syriac saint

Iranian martyr

Iranian commander and Marzban of wiruzān and Arān

Patriarch of the Church of the East

Nestorian patriarch