Narses (disambiguation)

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Narses or Nerses may refer to:

  • Narsai, Syriac poet-theologian (d. c. 502)
  • Narsai of Adiabene, 2nd-century Parthian client king of Adiabene
  • Narseh, a Sassanid King of Persia who reigned 292-303
  • Narses (478-573), a general under the Emperor Justinian I who led the reconquest of Italy
  • Narses (general under Maurice), a general under the Emperor Maurice at the end of the sixth century
  • Narsieh, son of Prince Pirooz and grandson of Yazdgerd III, the last king of the Sassanid empire
  • Nerses of Iberia, 8th-century Georgian prince
  • Nerses of Lambron, Archbishop of Tarsus

In Armenian patriarchs:

  • Saint Narses, Catholicos of Armenia, also known as Nerses the Great (d. 373)
  • Nerses II, Catholicos of Armenia, (d. 557)
  • Nerses III, Catholicos of Armenia, also known as Nerses the Builder (d. 661)
  • Nerses IV, Catholicos of Cilicia, also known Nerses the Graceful (d. 1173)
  • Nerses V, Catholicos of Armenia (d. 1857)