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Patriarchal Province Of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
The Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon was an ecclesiastical province of the Church of the East, with see in Seleucia-Ctesiphon. It was attested between the fifth and thirteenth centuries. As its name entails, it was the province of the patriarch of the Church of the East. The province consisted of a number of dioceses in the region of Beth Aramaye, between Basra and Kirkuk, which were placed under the patriarch's direct supervision at the synod of Yahballaha I in 420. Background According to Eliya of Damascus, there were thirteen dioceses in the province of the patriarch in 893: Kashkar, al-Tirhan (Tirhan), Dair Hazql (an alternative name for al-Nuʿmaniya, the chief town in the diocese of Zabe), al-Hira (Hirta), al-Anbar (Piroz Shabur), al-Sin (Shenna d'Beth Ramman), ʿUkbara, al-Radhan, Nifr, al-Qasra, 'Ba Daraya and Ba Kusaya' (Beth Daraye), ʿAbdasi (Nahargur) and al-Buwazikh (Konishabur or Beth Waziq). Eight of these dioceses already existed in the Sassanian per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sliba Ibn Yuhanna
Saliba or Sliba ibn Yuhanna ( ar, Ṣalībā ibn Yūḥannā, script=Latn) was a medieval Syriac Christian, author of a 1332 Arabic compendium known as ''The Books of Secrets'' (''Asfar al-Asrar''). Born in Mosul in the late 13th century, he was active in Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar on the upper Tigris in the early 14th century, and in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 1330s. He is principally known for his edition of Mari ibn Suleiman's and Amr ibn Matta's ''Book of Towers''. MS Paris BNF Arab. 204 is a likely autograph, where ibn Yuhanna copied texts that interested him. The manuscript is internally dated to June 1315 and placed in Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar. Years later, ibn Yuhanna added a ''Letter from Cyprus'' to the manuscript, dated to 1336, written in Famagusta, Cyprus. Ibn Yuhanna's "Book of Secrets" opens with a letter addressed to the Christians in the "West" (Byzantine Empire), defending the authenticity of the Church of the East and making a plea for Christian unity. It is plausible that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ʿEnanishoʿ
ʿEnanishoʿ (Syriac: ܥܢܢܝܫܘܥ, also romanized ''ʿAnanishoʿ'' or ''ʿNānišoʿ'') was a monk, philosopher, lexicographer and translator of the Church of the East who flourished in the 7th century. Biography ʿEnanishoʿ was from the region of Adiabene. He and his brother Ishoʿyahb studied at the school of Nisibis at the same time as the future patriarch Ishoʿyahb III (). His brother went on to become bishop of Shenna, while he entered the monastery of Mar Abraham on Mount Izla. He later made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and the monasteries of Scetis in Egypt, becoming well acquainted with Greek literature and Egyptian monasticism. Upon his return he joined the monastery of Beth ʿAbe. Writings At Beth ʿAbe, ʿEnanishoʿ took up writing. He wrote a philosophical treatise on "definitions and divisions" and a glossary of difficult words to aid in reading the Church Fathers. He wrote ''Book of Rules for Homographs'' about Syriac homographs, words having the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeshuyab II
Ishoʿyahb II of Gdala was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 628 to 645. He reigned during a period of great upheaval in the Sasanian Empire. He became patriarch at the end of a disastrous war between Rome and Persia, which weakened both powers. Two years later the Moslem Arabs began a career of conquest in which they overthrew the Sassanian empire and occupied the eastern provinces of the Roman empire. Ishoʿyahb lived through this momentous period, and is said to have met both the Roman emperor Heraclius and the second Moslem caliph ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab. The Syriac name Ishoʿyahb means 'Jesus has given', and is spelled variously in English. Alternative spellings include Yeshuyab and Ishu-yahb. Ishoʿyahb II is commonly known as Ishoʿyahb of Gdala, to distinguish him from two near-contemporary Nestorian patriarchs, Ishoʿyahb I of Arzun (582–95) and Ishoʿyahb III of Adiabene (649–59). Sources Ishoʿyahb's patriarchate, the Arab conquest of Iraq and Ishoʿya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Izla
Mount Izla ( syr, ܛܘܪ ܐܝܙܠܐ ''Ṭūr Īzlā' ''),Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Izla — ܛܘܪܐ ܕܐܝܙܠܐ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified January 14, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/100. also Mountain of Nisibis or briefly in the 9th century Mount Kashyari, is a low mountain or ridge near Nisibis in what once was Sassanid Persia, but is now southeastern Turkey, along the border with Syria. The ridge is the location of dozens of ancient monasteries which were built in the early centuries of Christianity. In modern times, all of the monasteries are in ruins except for that of Mor Melke reconsecrated in the 1930s, Mor Yakub Monastery, founded in in 2012–2013, and the Monastery of Mor Augin which was refounded in 2008 after being abandoned in the 70's. Though called a mountain, it is actually a ridge running from east to west, with a plateau on the northern (Turkey) side, and a plain on the southern (Syria) side. One end of the ridge is Dara, a Roman fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sliba-zkha
Sliba-zkha (the name means 'the cross has conquered' in Syriac) was patriarch of the Church of the East from 714 to 728. Sources Brief accounts of Sliba-zkha'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 ibn Suleiman (twelfth-century), ʿAmr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century). He is also mentioned in an unfavourable anecdote in Thomas of Marga's ''Book of Governors''. Sliba-zkha's patriarchate The following account of Sliba-zkha's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus: The catholicus Hnanishoʿ was succeeded by Sliba-zkha, who was consecrated at Seleucia. He was from Karka d'Piroz, which is today called Karkani, in the Tirhan region. He removed the name of Yohannan Garba Yohannan Garba ('the Leper'), originally metropolitan of Nisibis, was anti-patriarch of the Church of the East between 691 and 693. He opposed the cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliya I Of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Eliya I ( syr, ܐܠܝܐ) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1028 to 1049. He is also known as the author of an early grammar of Syriac written around the year 1000. Sources Brief accounts of Eliya's patriarchate are given in the ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus () and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), and (fourteenth-century). A modern assessment of his reign can be found in David Wilmshurst's ''The Martyred Church''. Eliya's patriarchate The following account of Eliya's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus: He shoyahb IVwas succeeded by Eliya I, formerly bishop of Tirhan The Diocese of Tirhan was an East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East, within the central ecclesiastical Province of the Patriarch. The diocese is attested between the sixth and fourteenth centuries. History The Tirhan district lay to the s ..., a man of advanced age and a learned doctor. He introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Daraye
Beth Daraye (meaning "land of Dara"), known in Arabic sources as Badaraya, was a region and administrative site southeast of the lower Nahrawan Canal, in the Sasanian province of Asoristan in present-day Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq .... Sources * Medieval Iraq Subdivisions of the Sasanian Empire {{Sasanian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezekiel (Nestorian Patriarch)
Ezekiel was patriarch of the Church of the East from 570 to 581. He is principally remembered in the popular tradition for having called his bishops 'the blind leading the blind', an act of presumption for which he was punished by becoming blind himself. Ezekiel's patriarchate Ezekiel's birthplace is not known, but like most of the sixth-century Nestorian patriarchs he was probably a native of northern Iraq. He was appointed bishop of Zabe (Arabic: al-Zawabi), a diocese in the ecclesiastical Province of the Patriarch, by the patriarch Joseph (552–67). He became patriarch of the Church of the East in 570, shortly after the death of his deposed predecessor Joseph, and held the office for eleven years. Although there was some opposition to his election, he soon won over the doubters by his sensible policies. Instead of stirring up trouble by removing the men appointed by his predecessor, he confirmed all the priests and deacons ordained by Joseph. However, he was too much of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elijah Of Nisibis
, native_name_lang = Syriac , church = Church of the East , archdiocese = Nisibis , province = Metropolitanate of Nisibis , metropolis = , diocese = , see = , appointed = 26 December 1008 , term_end = 18 July 1046 , quashed = , predecessor = Yahballaha , successor = Abdisho ibn Al-Aridh ? , opposed = , other_post = Bishop of Beth Nuhadra , ordination = 15 September 994 , ordained_by = Yohannan V , consecration = 15 February 1002 , consecrated_by = Yohannan V , cardinal = , created_cardinal_by = , rank = Archbishop , laicized = , birth_name = Elijah Bar Shinajah , birth_date = , baptised = , birth_place = Shenna, Abbasid Caliphate(modern-day Iraq) , death_date = , death_place = Mayyafariqin, Al-Jazira, Abbasid Caliphate(modern-day Silvan, Diyarbakır, Turkey) , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aba II
Aba II was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 741 to 751. He is included in the traditional list of patriarchs of the Church of the East. Sources Brief accounts of Aba's reign 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), Amr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century). Aba's patriarchate Aba was a student under Gabriel Arya at the School of Seleucia-Ctesiphon. As patriarch, he got into a dispute with his clergy over the running of the school. The following account of Aba's reign is given by Bar Hebraeus: After fulfilling his office for eleven years, he (Pethion Pethion was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 731 to 740. Sources Brief accounts of Pethion's patriarchate are given in the ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (''floruit'' 1280) and in the ecclesiastical hist ...) died in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
