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In hagiography: Mar Bawai was commemorated
as the Catholicos of the Church of the East from Tella. He was born a Zoroastrian and
converted to Christianity through his encounter with a monk called Mar Abda from Qunni. He
became a monk and was elected patriarch. His tenure was marked by the efforts of his
rival Barsauma to "Nestorianize"
the Church of the East. Bawai was killed, perhaps because Barsauma had accused him of
being an enemy of the Sasanian empire.
Names
- Bawai
- BĀWOÏ1
Sex
male1
Death
4841
Notes
In hagiography: Mar Bawai was commemorated
as the Catholicos of the Church of the East from Tella. He was born a Zoroastrian and
converted to Christianity through his encounter with a monk called Mar Abda from Qunni. He
became a monk and was elected patriarch. His tenure was marked by the efforts of his
rival Barsauma to "Nestorianize"
the Church of the East. Bawai was killed, perhaps because Barsauma had accused him of
being an enemy of the Sasanian empire.
Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 84.
- 3 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : II, 631-34.
- 4 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 126.
- 5 Addai Scher, Kitāb ašhar šuhadā' al-mašriq (Vies des saints martyrs d'Orient (Mossoul, 1900)., : II, 380-84.
- 6 Alfred Vacant et al. (eds.), Dictionnaire de théologie catholique, contenant l'exposé des doctrines de la théologie catholique, leurs preuves et leur histoire, (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1903)., : XII, col. 175-76.
- 7 Stephen. Gero, Barsauma of Nisibis and Persian Christianity in the fifth
century (Lovanii: In Aedibus E. Peeters, 1981)., : Louvain, 1981; CSCO 426, Subsidia 63), 97-109.
- 8 Alfred Baudrillart et al., Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912)., : VI col. 31.
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