ABSTRACT

Date (AD) Head, Catholicos, Patriarch Shah 399 Izhaq I, 399 - end 410 Yazdgard I, 399-420 411 Mar Ahai, 411 - end 414 415 Yah-alaha 1,415 - beginning 420 420 (Ma'na, 420) Bahram V, 420-438

(Fara-bakht, 420) 421 Dad-ishu' I, 421/2-456 438 Yazdgard II, 438-457 457 Babowai, May 457 - June 484 459 Firoz, 459-486 485 Aqaq, 485-495/6 486 Walgash, 486-488

Qubad, 488-531 497 Babai, 497-502/3 505 Shila,505-521/2 524 "The Duality", 524-538/9 538 Khusrau I, 531-579 539 Paul I, d. Palm Sunday 539 540 Mar Aba I the Great, Jan. 540 -

29 Feb. 552 552 Yusuf, May 552-566/7 (d. 576) 567 Hizqiel elected 570 Hizqiel consecrated, d. 581 579 Hurmizd IV, 579-590 582 Ishu-Yab I, 582-595 590 Khusrau II, 590-628 595 Sabr Ishu' 1,595-604 605 Gregory I, Apr. 605-609 609 Vacancy, 609-628 628 Ishu-Yab II, between 11 May and Shiruya, 628-629

30 Aug. 628-646 630 Queen Buran, 630-631 632 Yazdgard III, 632-651 Note: The names of a few Shahs of the period 629-632 have been omitted as unimportant.