John bar ʿAbdun - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography: John Bar ʿAbdun was
Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox church, and he had a life fraught with difficulty. He was
accused of attracting Chalcedonians to the Syrian Orthodox, and he was brought
to Constantinople to be
condemned by the Chalcedonians. He was slapped in the church of Hagia
Sophia by the Melkite Bishop John of Melitene. He died in exile in Thrace and was honored as a martyr by the
Syrian Orthodox.
Names
- John bar ʿAbdun
- JEAN BĀR 'ABDŪN1
Sex
male1
Death
10331
Floruit
1004-10331
Notes
In hagiography: John Bar ʿAbdun was
Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox church, and he had a life fraught with difficulty. He was
accused of attracting Chalcedonians to the Syrian Orthodox, and he was brought
to Constantinople to be
condemned by the Chalcedonians. He was slapped in the church of Hagia
Sophia by the Melkite Bishop John of Melitene. He died in exile in Thrace and was honored as a martyr by the
Syrian Orthodox.
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: 236.
- 3 Gilbert Dagron, Minorités ethniques et religieuses dans l'Orient byzantin à la fin du
Xe siècle et au XIe siècle l'immigration syrienne (Paris: E. De Boccard, 1976)., : 6 (1976), 177-210.
- 4 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, llll-12.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John bar ʿAbdun.”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of Gateway to the Syriac Saints, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1306.About this Entry
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