Bahrām I

Bahrām I (flourished 3rd century ad) was a Sāsānian king who reigned from 273–276. A son of Shāpūr I, during his father’s reign he governed the province of Atropatene. His succession to his brother Hormizd I strengthened the position of the Zoroastrian clergy and their high priest Kartēr, and at their insistence Bahrām imprisoned Mani, the founder of the antimaterialist, ascetic religion of Manichaeism. Subsequent religious persecution was directed not only at Manichaeans but at...