 The bishop Yaqob of Halat, a writer mentioned in the list of Syriac authors compiled in the fourteenth century by Abdisho Bar Brikha, flourished during the reign of the patriarch Pethion (731–40).An unnamed bishop of Armenia was present at the consecration of the patriarch Abdisho II in 1074.A note of 1137 by the copyist of the "Mukhtasar" mentions the recent suppression of the metropolitan province of Bardaa (in Azerbaijan) and the attribution of responsibility for the remaining Christians in the province to Eliya, bishop of Halat.