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In hagiography: Damian was patriarch
of Alexandria. He sent a letter
to Jacob Baradaeus hoping for
communion between the churches. He visited Antioch but broke from the Patriarch of Antioch, Peter of Callinicus, because of the
Tritheist controversy. This schism ended with the patriarchate of Athanasius I Gamolo.
Names
- Damian, patriarch of Alexandria
- DAMIEN1
Sex
male1
Floruit
576-5911
Notes
In hagiography: Damian was patriarch
of Alexandria. He sent a letter
to Jacob Baradaeus hoping for
communion between the churches. He visited Antioch but broke from the Patriarch of Antioch, Peter of Callinicus, because of the
Tritheist controversy. This schism ended with the patriarchate of Athanasius I Gamolo.
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: 113.
- 3 J.M. Fiey, "Coptes et Syriaques, contacts et échanges." Studia Orientalia Christiana Studia Orientalia Christiana vol. 15 (1972)., : (1972-73), 295-366.
- 4 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 601.
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