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According to Revelation 1:11, on the island of Patmos in the far east of the Aegean Sea, Jesus instructed John of Patmos to "[w]rite in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
Sardis (modern Sart in the Manisa Province of Turkey) gained reputation and fame as one of the Seven Churches of Asia (or Seven Churches of the Apocalypse) when it was addressed by John in the Book of Revelation. Under pressure from curious archaeology enthusiasts, the Turkish government allowed for excavations to commence in 1910, during which ...
Sardis had an early Christian community and is referred to in the New Testament as one of the seven churches of Asia. In the Book of Revelation, Jesus refers to the Sardians as not finishing what they started, being about image rather than substance. [9] [better source needed] Remains of Byzantine shops and the Gymnasium The gymnasium complex ...
The See of Sardis or Sardes (Greek: Σάρδεις, Sardeis) was an episcopal see in the city of that name. It was one of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse, held by metropolitan bishops since the middle to late 1st century, [1] with jurisdiction over the province of Lydia, when this was formed in 295.
It was one of the Seven Churches of Asia mentioned in the New Testament Book of Revelation, by John the Apostle. From 325 AD it was the see of a bishop under the jurisdiction of the metropolitan of Sardis. [1] The bishopric of Philadelphia was promoted to metropolis in ca. 1190, during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos (1185 ...
Revelation 3 is the third chapter of ... This chapter contains messages to the churches of Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea, three of the seven churches of Asia ...
The church was established in the Apostolic Age, the earliest period of Christianity, and is probably best known for being one of the Seven churches of Asia addressed by name in the Book of Revelation (Rev. 3.14–22).
Timothy, Onesimus and John [3] were all active in the area and The Christian community here was addressed by letter of John as it is one of the Seven churches of Revelation. The diocese was in the ecclesiastical province of Sardis. By the 3rd century, almost the entire town was Christian in religion but a stronghold of the Montanist sect. [4]