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• Ibas - Elected Bishop of Edessa in 439 as successor of Rabbulas, one of the most ardent supporters of St. ...
• Idatius of Lemica - Chronicler and bishop. ...
• Ignatius of Antioch, Saint - Bishop of Antioch. ...
• Incardination and Excardination - In the ecclesiastical sense the words are used to denote that a given person is freed from the jurisdiction of one bishop and is transferred to that of another. ...
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• Ipolyi, Arnold - Bishop of Grosswardein (Nagy-Várad), b. ...
• Irenaeus, Saint - Article on the bishop of Lyons, Father of the Church, d. ...
• Isaac of Nineveh - A Nestorian bishop of that city in the latter half of the seventh century, being consecrated by the Nestorian Patriarch George (660-80). ...
• Isidore of Seville, Saint - Biographical entry for this bishop, who died in 636. ...
• Ivo of Chartres, Saint - A bishop of France at the time of the Investiture struggles and the most important canonist before Gratian in the Occident, born of a noble family about 1040; died in 1116. ...

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• In the fourth century, it is said, the Metropolitan Bishop of Edessa had a vision in which the apostle asked him to help his Indian flock. ...
• Some think they were delivered to a new set of Christian immigrants from the Middle East who arrived with a bishop named Thomas late in the eighth century. ...
• We are told that the Patriarch of Seleucia-Ctesiphon reproved the bishop of Rawarishir, in the southwestern Persian province of Fars, for neglecting his duties, which included oversight of churches in India and other places on the Arabian Sea. ...

• The town of Mardin lies on the slopes of a wide moorland between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers at the intersection of the roads to Amida/Diyarbakr, Edessa/Urfa and Nisisbis/Nuseybin in ancient Mesopotamia. ...
• It had a Syriac Orthodox Bishop by 684 and became the See of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch in 1171. Although it was not mentioned in detail in the historical sources of the region, by its proximity to Edessa and Nisibis, it became part of the region that "played an exceptionally important part in the development of Eastern Christianity. ...
• As the world was preparing for the peace conference in Paris in the aftermath of World War I to decide the fate of the Ottoman Empire, the Syriac Orthodox Bishop of Syria, Mar Ephrem Barsom, in a letter to the Prime Minister of Britain, David Lloyd George, enumerated the losses of his people: "345 villages, 156 churches and historic monasteries were destroyed, about 90,313 people were killed of whom 155 were clergy. ...
• Matthews the Anglican Bishop of Quebec City, along with many other Sherbrooke dignitaries. ...
• It is improperly known as the Jacobite (after Jacob Baradaeus a Monophysite Bishop of Edessa) and even more inaccurately as the Monophysites because it was misunderstood and accused of rejecting "the dyophysite Christology and emphasized the oneness of the humanity and the divinity in the incarnate Christ. ...

• As areaction against Arianism, with its emphasis on the humanity of Christ,Apollinaris, bishop of Laodicesa (d. ...
• Its successwas dur largly to the missionary seal of Syrian monk Barsauma, bishop ofNisibis (ca. ...
• TheMonophysite Church in Syria was organized by Jacob Bardaeus, ordained bishopof Edessa about 541 and died in 578. ...
• From Edessa theChurch extended eastward into Persia. ...
• In Syria theMonophysite communion was called by hostile Greeks "Jacobites"after Jacob Baradacus, bishop of Edessa in the mid-sixth century. ...

• 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.
• In 451, at the Council of Chalcedon, Antiochene theology, with the support of Bishop Leo of Rome , gained a victory in the condemnation of Monophysitism, an extreme form of Alexandrian theology. ...
• The Second Council of Constantinople was comprised of 165 bishops under Pope Vigilius and Emperor Justinian I, condemned the errors of Origen and certain writings 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 King told them of a man named Daniel, a Syrian bishop of noble lineage, who unexpectedly had come into the possession of letters of Armenian alphabet. ... He then dispatched a man named Vahrij along with messages to a priest called Habel, who was an intimate of Bishop Daniel. ...
• Therefore, taking with him a group of young men, by authority of the King and the consent of Saint Sahak, the blessed Maslitots took leave with a kiss of holiness, on the fifth year of King Vramshapouh's reign, and came to the region of Aram,12 to two Assyrian cities, one of which was called Edessa,13 and the other, Amid. ...
• The dedicated teacher then divided his pupils into two groups, assigning one group to the Assyrian school in the city of Edessa, and the other to the Hellenic school in Samosata. ...
• Then taking leave of the holy Bishop, he went, along with his pupils, to the city of Samosata, where he was accorded great honors by the Bishop and the Church. ...
• Then taking papers from thd Bishop of the city and taking leave of them together with his followers, he came to the Assyrian Bishop. ...
• And thus as the unforgettable one approached the royal city, they informed the King and the holy Bishop. ...
• And so as to teach he gathered youths from the more brutal, barbarian, and fiendish regions and cared for them and instructed as a teacher, educated and advised them so well as to ordain a bishop overseer from among those barbarians, whose name was Ananias, a saintly, distinguished man, and a father for the seminarians. ...
• And he went and presented himself to King Bakour, and the bishop of the land, Moses. ...
• There were found among them men worthy of attaining the order of bishop, first among whom was a saintly and devout man by the name of Samuel, who became the Bishop of the royal court. ...
• Militene34 and left them in the care of the saintly Bishop of the city whose name was Akakios, and he named as their supervisor one called Leontius, a loyal and pious man. And then the blessed one taking with him the excellent Bishop of Derjan, whose name was Gint, and a few of his pupils there, and boarding a public transport and receiving much courtesy, arrived at tile capital city of Constantinople. ...
• And along with many pupils he came to the regions of Greater Armenia, and arriving at Nor Kaghak presented himself to the saintly bishop, Sahak, and to the Armenian King whose name was Artashes,38 and to the nobles, and related to them the things wrought by the Grace of God in those regions, and remained there a few days to distributc spiritual consolation. ...
• And then he bid farewell to then' in order to go to the region of the Albanians and arrived in their country, and upon reaching the royal regions, he saw the saintly Bishop of the Albanians whose name was Jeremiah, and their King, whose name was Arsvagh, who along with the nobility received him in the name of Christ with utter compliance. ... And they, the two associates, the King and the Bishop, expressed their readiness to adopt the letters and ordered that a large number of youths be gathered from provinces and places in the realm and to open schools in suitable places to make provisions for their livelihood. ...
• And when this order was actually fulfilled and bore results, Bishop Jeremiah soon began the translation of the divine books, whereby at once in one instant, the barbaric, slothful, and brutal men become well acquainted with the prophets and the apostles, becoming heirs to the gospel, and in no way ignorant of the divine traditions. ...

• Three books, or parts of three books—one by Theodore of Mopsuestia, one by Theod’oret of Cyprus, and the third by Ibas, Bishop of Edessa. ...

• Antony, probably written by Athanasius, the fourth-century bishop of Alexandria. ...
• Bowersock carefully examines the vocabulary and descriptions in the Syriac Life of Rabbula, the fifth-century bishop of Edessa, clearly demonstrating that the anonymous author of this work is quite familiar with, and a faithful translator of, the social customs and the geographic details of Edessa and its environs; and he even recovers Syriac examples of the Greek crowd acclamation <greek>W)KEANE/</greek>, the Syrian locution for the bought slave, <greek>OI)KO/GENES</greek> (Syr. ...

• June 5 - Saint Boniface, Bishop, Martyr (680-754).
• June 14 - Saint Basil the Great, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor (C. ...
• He was a brilliant theologian, a founder of monasticism and a devout bishop.
• Later he was made bishop of Caesarea. ...
• During the Persian takeover of Nisbis in 363, he became a hermit in the desert of Edessa. ... He was also instrumental in establishing charitable relief for the poor of Edessa.
• June 28 - Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr (c. ...
• Saint Irenaeus was born around 130 in the East, most likely in Smyrna, whose first bishop was Polycarp, a disciple of Saint John the Apostle. Irenaeus became priest and later bishop of Lyons, an important trading center in Gaul of the western Roman empire.

• The arrangement of the scripture lessons as we know them today with few modifications was arranged by Daniel, a monk of the Monastery of Beth Batin and his disciple Benjamin, Bishop of Edessa. The latter was assisted by the monk Isaac, an industrious pupil of the Bishop. ...
• The traditions of Antioch, Edessa, the monasteries of Qennesrin and Melitene influenced the lectionaries used in Syriac Othodox churches today that trace their culture to the Middle East. ...

• Barsamya, Bishop of Edessa, (I/II Centuries): .
• Martyrdom of Barsamya of Edessa Martyred under Trajan. ...
• Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon, French metalsmith, abbot, and opponent of Monothelitism, (VI/VII Centuries): .
• Meletius, Bishop of Antioch: .
• Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza, (IV/V Centuries): .
• Mark the Deacon: Life of Saint Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza: Written by Porphyry's own disciple. ...
• Sharbil of Edessa: .
• Vedast (or Foster), Bishop of Arras, (V/VI Centuries): .

• Bishop Ukhtanes of Sebastia. ...
• Eznik, Koghbatsi, Bishop of Bagrewand, 5th cent. ...
• Matthew, of Edessa, 12th cent. Armenia and the Crusades: tenth to twelfth centuries: the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa (Lanham: National Association for Armenian Studies and Research ; University Press of America, 1993).
• Sebeos, Bishop of Bagratunik, 7th cent. ...
• Sebeos, Bishop of Bagratunik, 7th cent. ...

• In the Persian school of Edessa, the rising generations of the faithful imbibed their theological idiom: they studied in the Syriac version the ten thousand volumes of Theodore of Mopsuestia; and they revered the apostolic faith and holy martyrdom of his disciple Nestorius, whose person and language were equally unknown to the nations beyond the Tigris. The first indelible lesson of Ibas, bishop of Edessa, taught them to execrate the Egyptians, who, in the synod of Ephesus, had impiously confounded the two natures of Christ. ...
• They acknowledged a Gentoo of sovereign, but they were governed, even in temporal concerns, by the bishop of Angamala. ... The Jesuits were incapable of defending the power which they had abused; the arms of forty thousand Christians were pointed against their falling tyrants; and the Indian archdeacon assumed the character of bishop till a fresh supply of episcopal gifts and Syriac missionaries could be obtained from the patriarch of Babylon. ...
• From the holy confessors in their prison of Constantinople, he received the powers of bishop of Edessa and apostle of the East, and the ordination of fourscore thousand bishops, priests, and deacons, is derived from the same inexhaustible source. ... Alive or dead, they are worshipped as the favorites of the Deity; the crosier of bishop and patriarch is reserved for their venerable hands; and they assume the government of men, while they are yet reeking with the habits and prejudices of the cloister. ...
• In his turn, the tyrant was excommunicated by the zeal and revenge of the people: and none except his servile Melchites would salute him as a man, a Christian, or a bishop. ...

• An Oriental sect of Monophysites, so called from Jacobus Baradæus (Jacoub Al-Baradei), Bishop of Edessa, in Syria, in the sixth century.
• His body was discovered in 840 by divine revelation to Bishop Theodomirus, and King Alfonso built a church at Compostelia for its shrine. ... James that were miraculously conveyed to Spain in a ship of marble from Jerusalem, where he was bishop. ...

• Bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia sheltered the exiled Arius and .
•  the election of Caecilian as bishop of Carthago. ...
•  Named after Jacob Baradai, bishop of Edessa (Syria) in 543. ...

• Finally, Eudocia asked the local bishop to baptise her. ... Monday, March 2 Hieromartyr Theodotus, bishop of Cyrenia (326) Known for his wisdom and virtue, he was chosen as Bishop of Cyrenia on the island of Cyprus. ... Hermon, Bishop of Jerusalem, first sent Ephraim and Basileus; Basileus raised the son of the prince of Cherson to life, after which many believed and were baptized. ... Eugenios, Agathodoros, and Elpidios were then sent by the Bishop of Jerusalem; they were beaten to death with rods and stones. ... Putting all his trust in God, the holy Bishop vested himself, made the sign of the Cross, and entered the furnace. ...
• Lives are compiled mostly from: The Synaxarion published by Ormylia Monastery; The Prologue from Ochrid by St Nikolai of Zika (Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic); and the Great Horologion, published by Holy Transfiguration Monastery.

• The bishop who met Egeria at Edessa was impressed by the fact that she had come "right from the other end of the earth" and she herself compares the colour of the Red Sea with that of the "Ocean". ...
• So she is delighted when the Bishop of Edessa gives her a manuscript of the Letter of Abgar, since she rightly suspects that it is different from the text they have at home And she picks up all the details she can which will enable her sisters to picture what they read in the Bible: thus you cannot see the summit of Sinai till you are well up it, and this must surely have been intended by God. ...

• 435, , Edessa.
• reforming bishop of Edessa and theologian who was a leading figure in the Christian church in Syria. ...

• He was the ninth bishop of Alexandria after Saint Mark (Benedictines).
• This saint was the first bishop of Antibes in Provence (France). ...
• Barses of Edessa B (RM).
• Bishop Barses of Edessa, Syria, died in exile after being banished to western Egypt on the frontiers of Libya by the Arian emperor Valens (Benedictines).
• According to the Roman Martyrology, Saint Barsimaeus was the third bishop of Edessa from Saint Jude. ... It is believed that he may have been Barsamja, successor to Palut, a bishop of Edessa in the middle of the 3rd century (Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson, Husenbeth).
• A contemporary English writer, Eddius (the biographer of Saint Wilfrid), asserts that Queen Bathild was responsible for the political assassination of Bishop Saint Annemund (Dalfinus) of Lyons and nine other bishops. ...

•             The Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus, King of Edessa. ...
• Barsamya, Bishop of Edessa, (I/II Centuries): .
•             Martyrdom of Barsamya of Edessa Martyred under Trajan. ...
• Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon, French metalsmith, abbot, and opponent of Monothelitism, (VI/VII Centuries): .
• Meletius, Bishop of Antioch: .
• Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza, (IV/V Centuries): .
•            Mark the Deacon: Life of Saint Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza:Written by Porphyry's own disciple. ...
• Sharbil of Edessa: .
• Vedast (or Foster), Bishop of Arras, (V/VI Centuries): .

• The Chronicle of Edessa. ...
• ----THE CHRONICLE OF EDESSA. ...
• SOME of the early Christian writers refer in very eulogistic terms to the archives of Edessa. ... Eusebius of Caesarea declares himself to have been indebted to this library for his account of the conversion of Edessa, the correspondence between Jesus Christ and king Abgar, and a few other matters true and false, to be read at the end of the first book of the ecclesiastical history. ... 2); and he was in the world thirty-three years according to the evidence of the true books of the archives of Edessa, which err in nothing, and which make everything known to us truly. " 2 This is something like the stereotyped phraseology for allusions to, the historical documents at Edessa. ...
• The Maronite, Joseph Simon Assemani, devotes a chapter of his great work, the Bibliotheca Orientalis, to the "Chronicle of Edessa. ...
• The Chronicle of Edessa. ...
• In the beginning of the history he describes the flood of waters which overflowed Edessa under the emperor Severus and king Abgar, according to the acts formerly drawn up by the notaries, and preserved in the archives, and put by us into their proper place. Moreover, the author is almost wholly occupied in registering the series of bishops of Edessa, and in describing their deeds. ...
• He starts at the beginning of the kingdom of Edessa, which he ascribes to the year 180 of the Greeks. ...
• In the year 180 kings began to rule in Edessa. ...
• Now Mar Yahab Bar Shemesh, and Kajuma Bar Magartat, the scribes of Edessa, recorded this event, and the command of Abgar the king: and Bar Din and Bulid, who are prefects over the archives of Edessa, received and deposited it within them as trusted of the city (i. ...
• The year 614, were broken down the walls of Edessa the second time in the days of Diocletian the king. ...
• In the year 624, Conon the bishop laid the foundations of the Church of Edessa; and Sha'ad, the bishop who came after him, built and finished the structure. ...
• In the year 635, the cemetery of Edessa was built, in the days of Ethalaha the bishop, the year before the great synod of Nicea was held. ...

• In the 6th century, the Bishop of Edessa, Jacob Baradai, ordained many bishops and priests to carry on the faith of those who rejected Chalcedon in the face of imperial opposition. ...
• The Patriarchal Vicariate of Australia and New Zealand (PO Box 257, Lidcombe 2141) did not have a bishop in early 2003. ...

• Aleppo, Apameia, Bostra, Cyrrhus, Dura Europos, Edessa, Ezra'a, Mardin, Nisibis, and Palmyra are all cities important for the development of Syrian Christianity, but at most of these we will also see sites of particular significance to Muslims and Jews. ...
•        Continue to Sanliurfa “Glorious Urfa” (ancient Urfa; renamed Edessa by Seleucius I Nicator in the fourth century BCE). ...   Edessa is famous as the capital of an early Christian dynasty, one of whose kings, Abgar I, allegedly, carried on a correspondence with Jesus!.
• Jacob—Jacob Burd’aya (Baradeus), the fifth-century Monophysite bishop of Edessa, who rejected the “Definition of Faith” formulated at the Council of Chalcedon (451) and after whom Syrian Orthodox Christians are frequently called “Jacobites. ...
• Offered in conjunction with a two week tour, including several days in the regions surrounding Damascus, Aleppo, Apamea, Palmyra, and ancient Edessa, the tour will visit ancient and modern Christian sites, shrines, communities, and monasteries. ...

•    Hilary, Bishop of Poictiers, (died, A. ...
• He was ordained Bishop of Cyrus in Syria, 420. ...
• Ballou quotes Domitian, Bishop of Galatia, as probably a Universalist (A. ...
•    Diodore, Bishop of Tarsus, from A. ... The "Dictionary of Christian Biography" observes: "Diodorus of Tarsus taught that the penalty of sin is not perpetual, but issues in the blessedness of immortality, and (he) was followed by Stephanus, Bishop of Edessa, and Salomo of Bassora, and Isaac of Nineveh. ...
• 433, Bishop of Ravenna, in a sermon on the Good Shepherd, says the lost sheep represents "the whole human race lost in Adam," and that Christ "followed the one, seeks the one, in order that in the one he may restore all. ...
•    Stephan Bar-sudaili, Abbot of Edessa, in Mesopotamia, at the end of the Fifth Century, taught Universalism,--the termination of all punishments in the future world, and their purifying character. ... Attacked as a heretic he left Edessa and repaired to Palestine, which in those days seems to have been the refuge of those who desired freedom of opinion. ...

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