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Sardis

NT Asia (Roman province)
The church in Sardis — stained-glass style group portrait

Told bluntly that it has "a name that you are alive, but you are dead" -- the only one of the seven churches given no commendation at all, though a few there "have not soiled their garments."

References: Revelation 3:1-6

No individual is named by Scripture in connection with this church — it is addressed only as a congregation.