ABSTRACT
Documentary sources identify a number of episcopal sees in Nubia, some suggest six in Alodia and seven in Makuria/Nobadia (Adams 1977: 472). The three most prominent ones in Lower Nubia seem to have been at Qurta, Qasr Ibrim and Faras, with another at Taifa and later Talmis. Further south there was one at Sai. Within the Makurian heartlands we only know much about the one at Old Dongola itself, although the names of others (e.g. Kallama, Merka) occur; a bishopric of Shanqir would seem to have been in the Abu Hamed region.
