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Abdisho Of Merv
Abdisho, ʾAbdisho, Abdishu, ʿAbd Īshūʿ, or Odisho, ( syr, ܥܒܕܝܫܘܥ, ar, عبد يشوع) meaning “servant of Christ” in Syriac, is a Syriac Christian name that may refer to: * Odisho * Abdisho (died 345) (298–345), deacon and martyr of the Church of the East * a companion in martyrdom to Desan (bishop) * a martyr at Arbela in 376 with Acepsimas of Hnaita * Abda and Abdisho, two Christian bishops who were martyred on May 16, in either 376 * Abdishu ibn Bahriz , nestorian translator * Abdisho I, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 963 to 986 * Abdisho III, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1139 to 1148 * Abdisho bar Berika (Ebed-Jesu) (d.1318), author of medieval catalogue of ancient Greek and Syriac writers * Abdisho IV Maron Mar Abdisho IV Maron ( syc, ܥܒܕܝܫܘܥ ܪܒܝܥܝܐ ܡܪܘܢ) was the second Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, from 1555 to 1570. Abdisho, whose name is spelled in many different ways (''Abdisu'', ''Abd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syriac Language
The Syriac language (; syc, / '), also known as Syriac Aramaic (''Syrian Aramaic'', ''Syro-Aramaic'') and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language, Aramaic dialect that emerged during the first century AD from a local Aramaic dialect that was spoken by Arameans in the ancient Aramean kingdom of Osroene, centered in the city of Edessa. During the Early Christian period, it became the main literary language of various Aramaic-speaking Christian communities in the historical region of Syria (region), Ancient Syria and throughout the Near East. As a liturgical language of Syriac Christianity, it gained a prominent role among Eastern Christian communities that used both Eastern Syriac Rite, Eastern Syriac and Western Syriac Rite, Western Syriac rites. Following the spread of Syriac Christianity, it also became a liturgical language of eastern Christian communities as far as India (East Syriac ecclesiastical province), India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odisho
Odisho ( Syriac: ) is a masculine given name of Classical Syriac and Neo-Aramaic origin. Given name * Odisho Oraham, bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East in Scandinavia and Germany Surname *Michael Odisho, Australian gang figure *Ayoub Odisho, Iraqi footballer *Tiras Odisho Tiras Odisho is an ethnic Assyrian former Martial Arts practitioner and expert who has served as the Director General of the National Olympic Committee of Iraq The National Olympic Committee of Iraq (NOCI) ( ar, اللجنة الاولمبية ا ..., martial artist of Iraqi-Assyrian origin * Ashoor Audisho, an Assyrian-Australian who was murdered by members of the gang The Last Hour See also * Abdisho (other), the Classical Syriac form of the name References {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdisho (died 345)
Abdisho (Syriac: ʰbhedhišoʰ), a member of the Church of the East, was a deacon and martyr. He was imprisoned with Bishop Heliodorus of Bet Zabdai in Mesopotamia by order of Shapur II. Following the deaths of bishop Dausa and 275 companions at Masabadan, Abdisho, who despite the stroke of the sword remained alive, continued to preach the gospel and bury the martyrs. He stayed at the place where all the martyrs were killed during thirty days. He prayed there and taught the other villagers how to save their souls through true faith. He was captured by the lord of the village and was held in chains for 4 days. All that time the lord tried to make him abandon his faith and stop teaching the others to be alive. Abdisho denied to obey and was sentenced to death by the mayor of the village in 345. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desan (bishop)
Desan (died 355AD) was a bishop of the Christian Church. He was a resident of Bizabda in Mesopotamia during the reign of Shapur II. He refused to turn away from the Christian faith and was on that basis transported to Persia where he was killed in 355. He was accompanied in martyrdom by a number of others, including: Heliodorus, another Christian bishop; Marjab, a Christian priest; Abdjesus, and 270 others. They are all collectively commemorated with a feast day The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context d ... on April 9. References Sources *Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1924. {{DEFAULTSORT:Desan Year of birth missing 355 deaths 4th-century Mesopotamian bishops 4th-century Christian martyrs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acepsimas Of Hnaita
Acepsimas of Hnaita (died October 10, 376) was a bishop, martyr and saint. Life Acepsimas was the bishop of Hnaita, residing at Paka in western Persia. He and several companions, including the priest Joseph of Bet-Katoba, who was then 70 years old, and the deacon Aitillaha of Bet-Nuhadra, who was then 66 years old, were arrested by Shapur II for refusing to worship according to the Zoroastrian faith. Acepsimas was taken in chains to Arbela (modern Erbil) before the governor. This judge admired how he could deny the divinity of the sun, which all the East adored. The martyr answered him, expressing his astonishment how men could prefer a creature to the Creator. By the orders of the governor he was laid on the ground with his feet bound, and in that posture barbarously scourged, till his whole body was covered with blood. He was then thrown into prison. Acepsimas endured three years of prison before he was racked and whipped to death on October 10, 376. Joseph was taken to Hdajab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abda And Abdisho
Abdisho and Abda were two successive bishops of Kashkar who were martyred along with 38 companions in 376 during the Forty-Year Persecution in the Sasanian Empire. Accused by his nephew of being a spy for the Roman Empire, Abdisho was arrested by the Sasanian authorities along with the priest Abd Alaha. They were tortured on the orders of Ardashir, viceroy of Adiabene, who then sent them on to Gondeshapur, where King Shapur II had them pressed between boards until their limbs were broken. According to the hagiography, they refused food that had been sacrificed to idols and were fed by a pious widow.Jean Maurice Fiey, ''Saints Syriaques'' (Darwin Press, 2004), pp. 18–19. In Abdisho's absence, a new bishop was appointed, Abda, who was soon also accused of spying for Rome. He was arrested with 28 others and seven virgins and all were led in chains to Gondeshapur. According to the hagiography, they refused to worship the sun and each received one hundred lashes. Two Christian br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdishu Ibn Bahriz
Ḥabīb ibn Bahrīz ( early 9th century), also called ʿAbdishoʿ bar Bahrīz,; ar, عبد يشوع بن بهريز, ʿAbd Īshūʿ ibn Bahrīz was a bishop and scholar of the Church of the East, famous for his translations from Syriac into Arabic. He also wrote original works on logic, canon law and apologetics. Ibn Bahrīz was probably born in the mid to late 8th century. His place of birth is unknown. He was a contemporary of the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn () and the physician Jibrīl ibn Bukhtīshūʿ. He may have died shortly before Ibn Bukhtīshūʿ's own death in 827.Mark N. Swanson, "ʿAbdīshūʿ ibn Bahrīz", in David Thomas and Barbara Roggema (eds.), ''Christian–Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History'', Vol. 1 (600–900) (Brill, 2008), pp. 550–552. He was of Persian descent, as indicated by his father's name, Bahrīz. His own given name was Ḥabīb, while ʿAbdishoʿ ('servant of Jesus') was a religious name he took upon entering the church.Barbara H. Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdisho I
ʿAbdishoʿ I was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 963 to 986. Sources Brief accounts of ʿAbdishoʿ's patriarchate are given in the ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (''floruit'' 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), ʿAmr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century). Modern assessments of his reign can be found in Jean-Maurice Fiey's ''Chrétiens syriaques sous les Abbassides'' and David Wilmshurst's ''The Martyred Church''. ʿAbdishoʿ's patriarchate The following account of ʿAbdishoʿ's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus: Then a certain doctor, a secular priest, Pethion by name, went to the governor, and promised him 300,000 ''nummi'' of silver to be appointed catholicus. On hearing the news, the bishops fled and hid, so that they should not be forced to consecrate him. Then the lawyers interceded between the bishops and the governor, and promised to hand over 130,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdisho III
Abdisho III bar Moqli was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1139 to 1148. Sources Brief accounts of Abdisho's patriarchate are given in the ecclesiastical history of the Nestorian writer Mari ibn Suleiman (), in the ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (), and in the histories of the fourteenth-century Nestorian writers and . Abdisho's patriarchate The following account of Abdisho's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus: Bar Sawma was succeeded by Abdisho Bar Moqli, of Mosul, an old man of a fine appearance. He was summoned to the caliph's palace after the election, and after he was crowned with the mitre and seated upon a mule, he progressed as far as the church of the third ward with one of the noblemen of the palace, and there dismounted. He conducted his patriarchate ably for nine years, and was then struck down by an apoplexy. He was consecrated on a Sunday, the tenth day of the latter ''teshrin'' ovemberin the year 533 of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdisho Bar Berika
Abdisho bar Berika or Ebedjesu ( syc, ܥܒܕܝܫܘܥ ܕܨܘܒܐ) (died 1318), also known as Mar Odisho or St. Odisho in English, was a Syriac writer. He was born in Nusaybin. Abdisho was first bishop of Shiggar (Sinjar) and the province of Bet 'Arbaye (Arbayestan) around 1285 and from before 1291 metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia. He was the author of the Marganitha (''The Book of the Jewel''), one of the most important ecclesiastical texts of the Assyrian Church of the East, a kind of theological encyclopaedia. He wrote biblical commentaries in Syriac, as well as polemical treatises against heresy and dogmatic and legal writings. He also wrote texts in metrical form including an author catalogue, which an important role in Syrian literary history . Works The "book of the jewel"or Marganitha The ''Marganitha'' ( syc, ܡܲܪܓܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ, "Pearl") is a book summarising the doctrine of the Church of the East written by Mar Odisho, Metropolitan of N’siwin and Armenia, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdisho IV Maron
Mar Abdisho IV Maron ( syc, ܥܒܕܝܫܘܥ ܪܒܝܥܝܐ ܡܪܘܢ) was the second Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, from 1555 to 1570. Abdisho, whose name is spelled in many different ways (''Abdisu'', ''Abd-Jesu'', ''Hebed-Jesu'', ''Abdissi'', ''Audishu'') meaning ''Servant of Jesus'', was born in Gazarta on the River Tigris, son of Yohannan of the house of Mari. He entered in the monasteries of Saint Antony and of Mar Ahha and Yohannan, and in 1554 was consecrated metropolitan bishop of Gazarta by Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa. After Sulaqa's death in 1555, Abdisho was elected patriarch of the Chaldean Church. He could travel to Rome only in 1561. On 7 March 1562 Abdisho made a profession of faith in front of pope Pius IV and on 17 April 1562 he received from the pope the pallium, the sign of the confirmation of his election declaring him as "Patriarch of the Eastern Assyrians". In a letter of his dated 1562 to the pope he listed thirty-eight dioceses under his rule, rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
