Cyriacus, patriarch of Antioch - ܩܘܪܝܐܩܘܣ

http://syriaca.org/person/145
Patr. of Antioch, ordained on 17 Aug. 793 in Ḥarran, died in June or August 817 in Mosul (the sources are not unanimous); he came from Tagrit; before becoming Patr. he had been a monk in the Monastery of Esṭona near Kallinikos.1

Names

  • ܩܘܪܝܐܩܘܣ
  • Cyriacus, patriarch of Antioch
  • ܩܘܪܝܐܩܘܣ ܦܛܪܝܪܟܐ ܕܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ4
  • ܩܘܪܝܰܐܩܘܣ ܦܰܛܪܝܰܪܟܐ ܕܐܰܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ4
  • قرياقس بطريرك انطاكية3
  • Cyriacus
  • CYRIAQUE7
  • Kyriakos1
  • Kyriakos of Tagrit
  • Qyriaqos of Antioch5
  • Qyriaqos of Tagrit5
  • Cyriaque de Tagrit6
  • Quryaqos1
  • Quryaqos, patriarch of Antioch2

Floruit

793

Birth

Tagrit

Death

817 Mosul

Sex

male7

Notes

Patr. of Antioch, ordained on 17 Aug. 793 in Ḥarran, died in June or August 817 in Mosul (the sources are not unanimous); he came from Tagrit; before becoming Patr. he had been a monk in the Monastery of Esṭona near Kallinikos.1
In hagiography: Cyriacus was commemorated an elderly monk of the Monastery of Esṭona, called the monastery of the column or pillar, on the left bank of the Euphrates. He became Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church and held at least five synods to address internal conflicts.
Status: draft  Is this record complete?

Works Cited

Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.

  • 1 W. Witakowski,Quryaqos,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 347-348.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum,The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), entry: 144, p: 376.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم,كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 329.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 358.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Qyriaqos of Antioch, Qyriaqos of Tagrit.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 855.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 105.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Isaac Barsaum,Al-Lu’lu’ al-Manṯūr Fī Ta’rīh al-‘ulūm Wa-l-Ādāb al-Suryānīya (Histoire de La Littérature Syriaque), 2nd ed. (Aleppo, 1956), p: 410-12.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 Anton Baumstark,Geschichte Der Syrischen Literatur, Mit Ausschluss Der Christlich-Palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1922), p: 270-271.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 J.S. Assemani,De Scriptoribus Syris Monophysitis (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719), p: 116-17.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 11 J.-B. Chabot,Littérature Syriaque, Bibliothèque Catholique Des Sciences Religieuses (Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 92.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 12 William Wright,A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: A. and C. Black, 1894), p: 165-66.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Cyriacus, patriarch of Antioch — ܩܘܪܝܐܩܘܣ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/145.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Cyriacus, patriarch of Antioch — ܩܘܪܝܐܩܘܣ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/145.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Cyriacus, patriarch of Antioch — ܩܘܪܝܐܩܘܣ

Additional Credit:

  • Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
  • German data entry by Samer Khader
  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
  • Arabic name entry by Jad Kaado
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

Copyright and License for Reuse

Except otherwise noted, this page is © 2016.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

This entry incorporates copyrighted material from the following work(s):

used under a Creative Commons Attribution license

Show full citation information...