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• In his seventy-second year, this bishop of Hierpolos made a pilgrimage to Rome which so impressed him that he caused a description of his journey to be carved upon his tomb.
• Martyred in Syria under the persecution of Diocletian, their bodies were contained in one of the principal shrines at Edessa in Syria.
• Abraham was a solitary, and converted to Christianity pagans on Mount Lebanon and became bishop of Carrhae, Mesopotamia. ...
• Born in Edessa, Mesopotamia, he shunned marriage to become a hermit near Beth-Kaduna whose population of idolaters he evangelized after three hard years. ...
• At thirty-nine he ran away to seek solitude, but was forced to return and to become bishop. ...
• Possibly bishop of Antioch, Pisidia, or of Melitene in Armenia. ...
• Wilfrid in 709 as bishop of Hexham. ...
• Bohemian by birth, Adalbert was elected bishop of Prague when still a young man. ...
• Addai was possibly a missionary in Edessa, Mari may never have existed. ...
• 1206-1280), Bishop, Doctor of the Church, Patron of Scientists.
• Ambrose (397), Bishop, Doctor of the Church.

• Ahodemeh the famous Catholicos of the East and a Martyr in the sixth Century : the theory of Galileo, the astronomer, was treated by the bishop of Edessa in the tenth century, in his book called "The cause of all causes. ...

• 112) This posed a threat to the claim of primacy in Rome and subsequently formulating a list of apostolic successors beginning with Andrew the Apostle consecrating a certain Stachys as the first bishop of Byzantium. ...
• Memnon, bishop of Ephesus, during the Council of Ephesus specifically opposed Nestorius for pursuing these heretics into Ephesian ecclesiastical areas. ...
• He sought the support of the Roman Church and after a synod was convened there in August 430, Pope Celestine threw his support behind the bishop of Alexandria. ...
• I find it odd that the site of the council is in a city whose Bishop is so anti-Nestorius, but this question will have to go into the annals of history unanswered. ...
• I believe Cyril envisioned being the "Bishop of bishops," much like the Roman papacy of today. In an article entitled "Rabbula of Edessa and the Peshitta" Matthew Black illustrates that Rabbula utilized the gospel quotations of Cyril in the revision of the Peshitta gospels. ... 412-435) most if not all of the bishops of Edessa looked to Antioch, Seleucia or Ctesiphon for their direction in relation to defining orthodoxy but Rabbula looked to the west, i. ... The utilization of Cyril's New Testament quotations seems to indicate a shift in political perspective for Edessa and the willingness to accept Cyril's leadership in Biblical matters implies a close cooperation between Alexandria and Edessa. As the "champion of Orthodoxy" in the church, he had the support of Rome and Edessa and the only person standing in his way of becoming "Bishop among bishops" was Nestorius who was an Antiochene. But shortly after the condemnation of Nestorius, Pope Celestine I died in 432 and Rabbula of Edessa died in 435. ...
• Theotokos first appears in written sources in a letter written in 324 by Bishop Alexander of Alexandria to the homonymous Bishop of Thessalonike but it seems to even go back to the time of Origen.

• Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa (d. ...
• Their liturgical language is the literary Syriac of Edessa, which they preserve as a living tongue, a close relative to the Aramaic spoken by Jesus Christ and his Apostles. ...

• LETTERS OF THE BLESSED THEODORET, BISHOP OF CYRUS, LETTERS I TO LXXV .
• LETTERS OF THE BLESSED THEODORET, BISHOP OF CYRUS .
• To Bishop Irenoeus. ...
• To Flavianus bishop of Constantinople. ...
• To the bishop Irenaeus. ...
• I am now compelled thus to write because my bonds(3) do not suffer me to hasten to you, but your most God-loving and most holy bishop is able unaided to give all consolation to your very faithful soul by word and by deed, by sight and by communication of thought and by that spiritual and God-given wisdom of his whereby I trust the tempest of your grief will be lulled to sleep. ...
• To Bishop Irenaeus. ...
• To Andreas Bishop of Samosata. ...
• To Domnus bishop of Antioch. ...
• To the Bishop Theoctistus. ...
• To the Bishop Irenoeus. ...
• To Pompianus, Bishop of Emesa. ...
• I beseech you to give no credit to him who bears indeed the name of bishop, but whose mode of action is unworthy even of respectable slaves. ...
• An individual who bears the name of bishop, but of ways unworthy even of stage players, has fled from the episcopal synod at a time when he was lying under sentence of excommunication and is endeavouring to calumniate and discredit the visitation, while through his hatred to the illustrious Philip be assails the truth. ...
• We beseech your excellency no less when absent than when present to extend to us your accustomed protection, and to undo the rage of that unworthy bishop of ours whose purposes are perfectly well known to your greatness. ...
• To Proclus,(1) Bishop of Constantinople. ...

• The Epistle of Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria to Alexander, Bishop of Constantinople. ...
• The Letter of Arius to Eusebius, Bishop of Nicomedia. ...
• The Letter of Eusebius, Bishop of Nicomedia, to Paulinus, Bishop of Tyre. ...
• Confutation of the blasphemies of the Arians of our time, from the writings of Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea. ...
• Letter from the Emperor to Macarius, Bishop of Jerusalem, concerning the building of the Holy Church. ...
• The unlawful Translation of Eusebius, Bishop of Nicomedia. ...
• The artful Machinations of Eusebius and his followers against the Holy Eustathius, Bishop of Antioch. ...
• Paulus, Bishop of Constantinople. ...
• Synodical Act of Damasus, Bishop of Rome, and of the Western Bishops, about the Council at Ariminum. ...
• The Letter of Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, concerning the same Council. ...
• Concerning the cunning of Leontius, Bishop of Antioch, and the boldness of Flavianus and Diadorus. ...
• Of the siege of the city of Nisibis, and the apostolic conversation of Bishop Jacobus. ...
• About Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata. ...
• Of the election of Ambrosius, the Bishop of Milan. ...
• Of Eusebius, bishop of Samosata, and others. ...
• Of the holy Barses, and of the exile of the bishop of Edessa and his companions. ...

• Ibas, bishop of Edessa (435-457), helped the Nestorians establish a school, an ecclesiastical center and a patriarchal see. ...

• Flugentius, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa. ... Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus and father of Gregory the Theologian (374). ... Platon, Bishop of Revel in Estonia, New Martyr, and with him Priests Michael and Nicholas (1919). ...
• Theogenes, Bishop of Parium on the Hellespont, Hieromartyr (320). ...
• Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia and Theonas, Martyrs (303). ...
• Emilian, the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (9th cen. ... Gregory, bishop of Moesia (Bulgaria - 1012). ...
• Peter, bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (4th cen. ...
• Gregory, bishop of Nyssa (394), Dometian, bishop of Melitene (601). ...
• Hilary, bishop of Poitiers (368). ... James, bishop of Nisibis (350). ...
• New Martyr Ambrose, bishop of Sarapul (1918). ...
• Mark, Bishop of Ephesus (394). ...
• Hieromartyr Clement, bishop of Ancyra and Martyr Agathangelus (312). Paulinus the Merciful (431), bishop of Nola. ...
• Philo, Bishop of Calpa in Cyprus (5th cen. ... Gerasimus, bishop of Perm (1441). ... Felician, Bishop of Foligno in Italy. ...

• " 4 And it is this that has survived in the popular memory as the great glory of the council--its acceptance, that is to say, of a statement of the true belief about the Incarnation on the authority of the bishop who, so they believe, is Peter's successor and heir. ...
• " He speedily had the city aflame, and the empress-dowager heading a plot to bar out the bishop--not yet returned- -and set another in his place: a successful plot, for the bishop fled before the insurrection. ... It took the whole force of an army to get the lawful bishop of Jerusalem back into his see. ...
• Egypt received the news of Chalcedon's deposition of Dioscoros--and its new chief bishop, Proterius--no less badly. ... The bishop was murdered, and his naked, mutilated corpse dragged through the streets in triumph. ...
• It was after Leo's death (474) that the real trouble began, not the mere matter of rioting mobs and fanatical clerics, but of the state proposing its own official solution of the great dilemma, to which every bishop had to set his signature. ... " 6 Every bishop was ordered to set his signature to the letter, as testimony of submission. ...
• Religious affairs he handed over to the bishop of Constantinople, Acacius, almost the only bishop who had stood firm against the Encyclical. ...
• The problem had not, in fact, diminished as the years went by, and it was a practical problem; for example, every time a new bishop was appointed in Egypt or Syria the chances were that there would be a miniature civil war for some days or weeks or for longer still. Zeno had closed his eyes to the fact that Timothy had returned to Alexandria during the usurpation, and after Timothy's death he recognised a second leading Monophysite as bishop. ...
• Acacius died five years after his condemnation, still bishop and still unsubmissive. ... Once he had completed his careful reorganisation of the state he, too, turned to solve the great problem, and called in leading Monophysites as his advisors--two very notable personages, Philoxene bishop of Mabboug 10 and the monk Severus whom, in 512, the emperor made patriarch of Antioch. ...
• This was a Monophysite crusade against three bishops--writers all of them--now long since dead, who had once been friends and associates of Nestorius: the bishop of Mopsuestia, Theodore; the bishop of Cyrrhus, Theodoret; the bishop of Edessa, Ibas. ...
• Five years later, in the same city, he again raised the question of their orthodoxy, in his endeavour to bring about the deposition of his superior, the bishop, Flavian--a strong anti- Monophysite. ...
• Once again Roman legates appeared in the capital and, as the condition sine qua non of restoration to communion, the emperor and the bishop--and all the bishops of the empire-- signed the formulary drawn up by the pope, Hormisdas. ... " They therefore, desiring and hoping never to be separated from this faith, anathematize all heresies, and, by name, "Nestorius, once bishop of Constantinople and condemned by Celestine pope of Rome and Cyril bishop of Alexandria. ... " The bishops declare their detestation of the "murderous Timothy the Cat" and his successor Peter; and they also condemn with these "Acacius, the bishop of Constantinople whom the Apostolic See condemned," and all who had remained in communion with Acacius. ...

• The name of the Jacobite Church comes from the name of Jacob Baradai (d 578), a Bishop of Edessa, who organised the Syrian Monophysitic hierarchy and undertook large-scale missionary action in the Arabian Peninsula, Palestine, Syria and Egypt. ... Its origins go back to Apostle Peter and Bishop Ignatius, his successor in Antioch, who was martyred by the Romans in the 1st century. ...
• At the end of the 5th century, their church was already so well-organised that Babai II, the Bishop of Ctesiphon, was able to adopt the title of the Patriarch of the East, which elevated him to equal status with the Metropolitans of Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome. ...
• This can be accounted for by their devotion, deep religious faith and monastic discipline, as well as the intellectual heritage of the school in Nisibis and the theological academy in Edessa. ...

• Mor Joseph of Urfa (Uraha/Edessa)  .
• Mor Joseph of Urfa (Uraha/Edessa)   The Nicene council created four Patriarchs according to four corners of earth and defined areas of authority for the first time. ... Jerusalem bishop was conferred honorary rank as the fifth Patriarch recognizing the preeminent status of Jerusalem as the place of redemptive activities of our Lord. ... The Patriarch advised Mor Ouseph, bishop of Edessa to accompany Knai Thoma to Malabar. Knai Thoma, the bishop, two priests, two deacons and 72 families comprising four hundred members landed in Kodungallor in AD 345.   (Mor Ouseph, bishop of Edessa)   Some recent writers discredit the Syrian migration of Knai Thoma as a way to escape persecution. ...

• Hermit and apostle who faced the pagan priests of Edessa in Mesopotamia. ... Soon after, he was asked by the bishop of Edessa to start a hermitage at Beth-Kiduna, near the city. ...

•   In the 4th century, Apostle's relics were taken to Edessa at the instance of the then Patriarch of Antioch and established in the Church there.
• A Persian bishop by name Yohannan is said to have represented India in that Synod, the veracity of which is evident from his signature in the Nicea Synod. ...
•   It was while the Christians of Malabar remained in this unsatisfactory condition that Mor Joseph the Bishop of Edessa (a place in the eastern border of the Roman Empire;now in Turkey), had a dream regarding the sad situation of the Church at Malabar.  He informed this to the Bishop of Jerusalem who consulted the other Bishops as to what should be done in this matter. ...  On his return he explained about the Christians at Malabar and all what he saw, to the Bishop of Jerusalem. ...
• Consequent to this, the Church Synod held under the Chief Bishop (Patriarch) of Antioch & all the East, immediately decided to send a delegation to Malabar (Kerala) and accordingly in AD 345, around 400 odd persons from 72 families comprising men, women and children, reached Cragananore (Kodungalloore) under the leadership of the merchant, Thomas of Kina (Knai).   The group consisted of the Bishop Mor Joseph of Edessa as well as some priests and deacons. (Edessa was in the eastern boundary of Roman Empire and not in Persia as claimed by some people. ...
• Mor Joseph of Edessa.
• This Syrian Christian delegation from Edessa, was originally from a sect of Jewish Christians from different places of then Canaan land (later called Palestine, now Israel). ...
• Thomas transferred to Edessa.
• Thomas was taken to Edessa, a place that was under the authority of the Patriarch of Antioch. ...
•   Another of the 7th century (from the Septuagint by Paul, bishop of Tella - no. ...
•   In the 14th century, a Roman Bishop named John de Marinjoli is believed to have landed in Kollam. ...   In 1328 Pope John XXII had ordained the Friar Jordanoos as Bishop of Kollam and deputed him to India, but he does not seem to have reached India. ...
•   This fact is recalled in the scholarly work of Arch Bishop Mar Ivanios of Syrian Catholic Church (Fr. ...

• Agrippinus of Alexandria (Egyptian, bishop, c. ...
• Armentarius of Antibes (French, bishop, c. ...
• Armentarius of Pavia (Italian, bishop, c. ...
• Barses of Edessa (Syrian, bishop, died in Egypt c. ...
• Barsimaeus (Syrian, bishop, martyred c. ...
• Agrippinus of Alexandria (Egyptian, bishop, c. ...
• Armentarius of Antibes (French, bishop, c. ...
• Armentarius of Pavia (Italian, bishop, c. ...
• Barses of Edessa (Syrian, bishop, died in Egypt c. ...
• Barsimaeus of Edessa (Syrian, bishop, martyred c. ...

• That the translation of the Old Testament and New Testament was made in connection with the visit of Thaddaeus to Abgar at Edessa belongs also to unreliable tradition. ...
• Professor Burkitt has made it probable that the translation of the Old Testament was the work of Jews, of whom there was a colony in Edessa about the commencement of the Christian era (Early Eastern Christianity, 71 ff). ...
• The tendency of recent research, however, goes to show that Edessa, the literary capital, was more likely the place.
• Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus in the 5th century, tells how he found more than 200 copies of the Diatessaron held in honor in his diocese and how he collected them, and put them out of the way, associated as they were with the name of a heretic, and substituted for them the Gospels of the four evangelists in their separate forms.
• The recent investigations of Professor Burkitt and other scholars have made it probable that the Peshitta was the work of Rabbula, bishop of Edessa, at the beginning of the 5th century. ...
• One of these is the Philoxenian, made by Philoxenus, bishop of Mabug (485-519) on the Euphrates, from the Greek, with the help of his Chorepiscopus Polycarp. ...

• Abraham was a rich nobleman of Edessa, born in the year 300. ...
• Since many were seeking him out for advice and consolation, the Bishop of Edessa ordained him priest, overruling his humility. ...
• All of Edessa came for his last blessing and to secure his relics.

• Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, poet, (IV Century): .
• Basil the Great, Bishop of Cæsarea, Cappadocian Orthodox theologian, (IV Century): .
• Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, African theologian and martyr, (III Century): .
• Dionysius the Areopagite, Bishop of Athens, (I Century): .
• Dionysius, Bishop of the Athenians. ...
• Eucherius, Bishop of Lyons, (IV/V Centuries): .
• Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, Cappadocian theologian, (IV Century): READ WITH CAUTION: Although he is a truly great Eastern saint, a few of Gregory's opinions have since been rejected by the Church. ...
• Barsamya of Edessa: .
• Martyrdom of Barsamya of Edessa --- SPL .
• Maximus Margunius, Bishop of Cythera, Byzantine Renaissance humanist, editor of the works of Chrysostom, (XVI/XVII Centuries): .
• Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, martyr, (I/II Centuries): .
• Proclus, Bishop of Cyzicus in Asia Minor, (V Century): .
• Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene, Christian Neo-Platonist philosopher, (IV/V Centuries): READ WITH CAUTION: The author is not canonized, and was heavily influenced by non-Christian writers. ...

• Officially persecuted by the Roman Empire, the Monophysites received some sympathy from Empress Theodora, who in 543 arranged for the secret consecration of James as bishop of Edessa and as ecumenical metropolitan. ...

• Page4 97 Bishop Gregory carried his opposition so far as to consecrate the leader of the faction who thwarted Mar Thomas V and this bishop took the name Cyril. However, Mar Thomas had the upper hand and imprisoned Mar Cyril, who afterwards fled to the extreme north of the Cochin State and there founded the diminutive See of Anyur or Tholyur, which exists to this day, each bishop having consecrated a successor.
• Eight years later, on December 22nd 1785, Father Paul visited the bishop. ...
• Dionysius says that the money was the amount saved by the Syrian bishop in those days, that Colonel Macaulay, in the troublous times of the Revolt of 1808 borrowed this sum from the bishop and that instead of repaying the cash the money was thus invested. ...
• 101 At the suggestion of Colonel Munro in May 1818 the Syrian bishop received a salary from the college funds. ...
• 106 The note written on this by Mar Dionysius, the present Metropolitan of the Jacobites at Kottayam, says that the conditions imposed were that the Syrian bishop was not to ordain any candidate without a certificate of fitness from a C. ... missionary and that the accounts of the Syrian churches were to be audited by a person appointed by the Resident, these conditions imposing a bondage to which no Christian bishop ought to submit.
• Speaking generally, every bishop, as such, has the power to consecrate any priest as bishop. ... That is to say, the consecrand may be a bishop, although with no lawful jurisdiction over any diocese. Again, the fact that one bishop consecrated another does not of itself give to the consecrator any authority over or any power to interfere in the diocese of the consecrand. ... Augustine of Canterbury went to France for consecration but the French bishop claimed no rights over England. Many an Archbishop is consecrated by one of his suffragans, as here in Travancore, where the Archbishop of Verapoly was consecrated by his suffragan, the Bishop of Quilon. Even the Pope, if not already a bishop before his election, is consecrated by his suffragan, the Bishop of Ostia. ...
• Bishop Gell of Madras was of opinion that the Madras diocese could be subdivided only by Act of Parliament and the Secretary of State was unwilling to introduce such a Bill. ... Bishop Hodges receives no salary from the Crown but a contribution of Rs. ...
• When such disputes arise they are usually decided by priest or bishop or missionary and do not reach the courts. ...

•   However his relics were taken to Edessa in the 4th century at the instance of the then Patriarch of Antioch.
• A Persian bishop by name Yohannan is said to have represented India in that Synod, the veracity of which is evident from his signature in the Nicea Synod. ...
•   It was while the Christians of Malabar remained in this unsatisfactory condition that Mor Joseph the Bishop of Edessa (a place in the eastern border of the Roman Empire), had a dream regarding the sad situation of the Church at Malabar.   He informed this to the Bishop-Patriarch of Jerusalem who consulted the other Bishops as to what should be done in this matter. ...   On his return he explained about the Christians at Malabar and all what he saw, to the Bishop of Jerusalem. ...
•   The group consisted of the Bishop Mor Joseph of Edessa as well as some priests and deacons.     (Edessa was in the eastern boundary of Roman Empire and not in Persia as claimed by some people. ...
• This Syrian Christian delegation from Edessa, was from a sect of Jewish Christians from different places of then Canaan land (later called Palestine, now Israel). ...
• Thomas transferred to Edessa.
• Thomas was taken to Edessa, a place that was under the authority of the Patriarch of Antioch. ...
•    Another of the 7th century (from the Septuagint by Paul, bishop of Tella - no. ...
•   In the 14th century, a Roman Bishop named John de Marinjoli is believed to have landed in Kollam. ...   In 1328 Pope John XXII had ordained the Friar Jordanoos as Bishop of Kollam and deputed him to India, but he does not seem to have reached India. ...
•   This fact is recalled in the scholarly work of Arch Bishop Mar Ivanios of Syrian Catholic Church (Fr. ...
• To prove that the Church in Kerala was not Nestorian before 1490, it is only to recall a Nestorian bishop who came to Malankara in this period. ...
•   Saint Gregorios ordained, Arakadiyakon as Bishop who assumed charge as MarThoma I. ...

• Hosius, Bishop of Cordova, assisted as legate of Pope Sylvester. ...
• Cyril of Alexandria representing Pope Celestine l, defined the true personal unity of Christ, declared Mary the Mother of God (theotokos) against Nestorius, Bishop of Constantinople, and renewed the condemnation of Pelagius. ...
• Second Council of Constantinople (553), of 165 bishops under Pope Vigilius and Emperor Justinian I, condemned the errors of Origen and certain writings (The Three Chapters) of Theodoret, of Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia and of Ibas, Bishop of Edessa; it further confirmed the first four general councils, especially that of Chalcedon whose authority was contested by some heretics. ...

• The earliest centres of Christianity in the East were: Edessa, Arbela in Parthia, and India. ...
• Edessa and the countries round about it which were on all sides of it, and Zoba (Nisibis) and Arabia, and all the north, and the regions round about it, and the south and all the regions on the borders of Mesopotamia, received apostles’ ordination to the priesthood from Addaeus the apostle, one of the seventy-two apostles. ...
• He was sent out to Persia from Edessa, but he begged the home church to allow him to return; but the church in Edessa asked him to continue his work. ...
• By the end of the Parthian dynasty (AD 225), Christian communities were seen all the way from Edessa to Afghanistan. ...
• Looking at the expansion of Christianity in the Parthian empire in such an early period, historians have raised the possibility that Arbela, the capital of Adiabene, if not prior to Edessa, could have been an independent focus, independent of Edessa, for missionary work throughout the Persian empire. In fact there is a theory that Christianity first came to Arbela and from there to Edessa. ...
• Bishop Simon of Seleucia who protested saying, "I am no tax collector but a shepherd of the Lord’s flock," was put to death on a Good Friday along with a large number of clergy. ...
• the fourth century, under the leadership of bishop Papa bar Aggai of Seleucia, there were efforts made to shape a national organization for the Persian church. ...
• ) under the presidency of Mar Isaac, the bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon. The most important decision of the Synod which had a very far reaching effect on the life of the church, was to declare the bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon as the primate of the Persian church; and in recognition of this preeminence he was given the title ‘Catholicos’. ... It laid down that there should only be one bishop to each See and that the ordination of bishops should be by three bishops. ...
• Without his approval, no election of bishop would be valid.
• 5l -- "From 424 we must date the independence of Persia from Edessa and Antioch. ...
• (a) that bishops can bestow ordination for the diaconate only on married men, and it is implicit, following 1 Timothy 3:1-5, that bishops should be married; (b) that those who voluntarily choose not to marry, must live in a monastry in purity and continence; (c) that a bishop cannot oppose the wish of an unmarried priest to marry, or if a priest is widowed, to marry again. ...
• Edessa became a centre of Nestorianism. Many of the teachers in the theological school at Edessa were still attached to the teachings of Theodore of Mopsuestia and approved neither the decisions of Ephesus nor the way the emperor tried to impose peace. The attitude of the School at Edessa was important because it was there that most of the clergy of the Persian church were trained. ...

• Eusebius of Caesarea, the church historian becomes bishop of Caesarea. ...
• Accordingly, under the authority of the church at Caesarea, Gregory was ordained as bishop of Ashtishat in Taron. ...
• Bishop Qona of Edessa is succeeded by Sa'ad.
• Bishop Sa'ad of Edessa completes the cathedral church started by his predecessor, bishop Qona.
• Eusebius became (Arian) bishop of Caesarea Maritima.
• (Another) Eusebius, (also an Arian) bishop of Nicomedia, the Imperial capital.
• Aitalaha (succeeds Sa'ad? and) becomes bishop of Edessa. ... This comment is very important for the history of the Syriac text used in Edessa. It is the first direct evidence we have that the four gospel format was being used by the clergy in Edessa.
• The Chronicle of Edessa 41 via 38 , p. ...
• This means that Christianity at Edessa was under the control of the bishop of Antioch at this time. ...
• Died Jacob of Nisibis, (his remains were later moved from Nisibis to Edessa).
• Eusebius bishop of Nicomedia moves to Constantinople as the new bishop, (another Eusebius, not the Caesarean). ...
• Athanasius bishop of Alexandria.
• Gadiab (Syriac Bishop) and Sabina (Greek Bishop) both of Beth Laphat were martyred by Shapor II. ...
• Probably to save them from persecution, the Catholicos of Babylon sent a Christian Armenian merchant banker, Thomas of Kana, (or Thomas of Jerusalem) together with a bishop, deacons and women and children. ...

• travel with Jesus to EDESSA and .
• from EDESSA to INDIA!.
•  Jesus and Thomas arrived at Edessa soon after their mutual.
• Edessa, Jesus appearing from time to time as.
• for the Gemini TWINS) were the special protectors of Edessa, and soon after .
• the Christian Bishop of Edessa! The Pagans could care less if their .
• Edessa (but one based mostly on Miracles and Mythology).

• Ibas becomes bishop of Edessa. ...
• Rabbulas, bishop of Edessa .

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