An episcoponomicon of AD 605

Most of the "minutes" of the Oriental synods ended up stored in Alqosh 169. This has been copied, edited, and translated into French and German.

It doesn't include anything from AD 612 to AD 676 (this last, at Diren, is famous). So we cannot check upon Thomas of Marga's claims especially about AD 628, under Shiroë which restored the Catholicate. Also AD 612 wasn't the sort of synod as decided anything; it was a debate which "Victorious Khusro" (i.e. Parwez) put on between the bishops of the Eastern Church and some of the Had-Qnoma. (Tikrit didn't yet have a "Maphrian".)

That MS offers a census of which bishops. Siʿrt #86 and Khuzestan #16 describe the same event. These are Gabriel of Sinjar on one side, and on the other Yonadab metropolitan of Hadiab, Shubhalmaran of Karka d-Beth Slokh, Giwargis from mount Izla and the bishop of Narargul, and Sergios of Kashkar originally from Tel-Pahhare. To be noted, they're all northern-Iraqis. Probably how it ended up in an Alqosh MS and also Siʿrt; southern collections will collect southern concerns. We should count ourselves lucky that the Huzaye found this of interest.

Ishoʿdnah #58 tells that Khusro exiled Shubhalmaran on account of his quarrel with Gabriel; #57 that George will end up a martyr. Sergios of Kashkar may become the disciple of Mar Jacob; either may be the doctor who will become so great a friend to Ishoʿyahb of Nineveh.

Siʿrt #83 includes a similar list, in the anathema against Hnana of Nisibis. It's northern too... hence, Nineveh-Siʿrt, I guess. This anathema rolled out implicitly earlier because George is still here. But not much earlier.

The Synodicon does however float the list for AD 605 not long before these. I don't recognise names, myself... except for that indefatiguable Jonadab of Arbela, metropolitan of Adiabene. Jonadab will survive as the senior partner to Gabriel of Garmay and Cyriacus of Nisibin. Whether Arbela's status as a metropolitan see will survive Jonadab, I know not. (Isho'yahb's letters from Nineveh tend to vault over Arbela to fall upon Kirkuk and Seleucia.)

As far as anything else, Pherat has a metropolitan for the Mayshan district. In AD 605 he's Joseph; in AD 637ish - says Chase Robinson - he'll be the ill-fated Abraham. Kirkuk has the metro' for Beth Garmay, of course; in AD 605 he's Boktishoʿ, AD 612 probably Shubhalmaran and he'll be Gabriel later. Everyone else AD 605 is just a bishop, among whose sees some names will show up later: Karka d-Ledan, Shushtre (hey, Chabot caught the syame!), Hormizd-Ardashir (=Ahwaz), Shush (=Old Susa; under Jacob now Barsauma later). As you can see for this the south shows up; with a few missing links starting at Bet-Lapat. From the north conspicuous no-shows include Nineveh - and Nisibis. I actually would have admitted a mpashqana rather than a metropolitan from that university town, but . . .

If Bet-Lapat was not even a see then, at this time, I expect the Christians of the Bet-Huzaye answered to Pherat d-Maysan.