Peter the Iberian - ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܝܒܪܝܐ

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The son of Bosmarios, king of Georgia (Iberia), he was brought up in Constantinople as a political hostage at the court of the Emperor Theodosius II.1

Names

  • ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܝܒܪܝܐ4
  • Peter the Iberian
  • ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܝܒܪܝܐ14
  • ܦܶܛܪܽܘܣ ܐܺܝܒܰܪܳܝܐ4
  • بطرس الكرجي3
  • Paṭrōs ʾĪḇerāyā14
  • Peṭrus Iberāyā
  • PIERRE L'IBÈRE6
  • Pierre l’Ibère14
  • Peter the Iberian1, 2, 10
  • PIERRE l’Ibère6
  • Pierre l’Ibère6

Sex

male6

Floruit

4886

Birth

4086 or ca. 4171

Death

4911

Descriptions

In hagiography: Peter the Iberian was the son of the king of Georgia. He helped Nestorius preach a homily about the saints. He went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and became a monk. He became Bishop of Maiuma in Gaza and was exiled to Egypt in 455.

Events

The saint is venerated on December 1 and November 27. 6 The saint is venerated on Syr. iacob., can. pr. 1.. 6

Notes

The son of Bosmarios, king of Georgia (Iberia), he was brought up in Constantinople as a political hostage at the court of the Emperor Theodosius II.1
End of the Life of Peter
Status: draft  Is this record complete?

Works Cited

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  • 1 S. P. Brock, "Peter the Iberian." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 331-332.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), pp: 150.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 132.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 153.Link to Syriaca.org web application 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: Peter the Iberian.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 350.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 955-956, 367-393.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 8 François Nau (ed.), Plérophories: témoignages et révélations contre le Concile de Chalcédoine (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912)., : 126 n° 4, Note: fin de la vie de Pierre .Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 9 E. W Brooks (ed.), Vitae virorum apud monophysitas celeberrimorum [Translation] vol. 2 , Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 8 (Paris: E Typographeo Reipublicae, 1907), pp: 11-12, Note: ne donnent que quelques lignes de la fin de sa notice .Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 10 J. B. Chabot, "Pierre l’Ibérien, évêque monophysite de Mayouma à la fin du Ve siècle." Revue de l’Orient latin vol. 3 (1895), : 367-393.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 11 D.M. Lang, "Peter the Iberian and his Biographers." Journal of Ecclesiastical History vol. 2 (1951)., pp: 158-168.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 12 Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints: 57-80, : (London 1976), 57-80., : 57-80, : (London 1976), 57-80.
  • 13 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: 2, pp: 804.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 14 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 336, 725.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 15 E. W Brooks (ed.), Vitae virorum apud monophysitas celeberrimorum [Translation] vol. 2 , Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 8 (Paris: E Typographeo Reipublicae, 1907), : CSCO (Syr. 8), 11-12.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 16 Jean-Baptiste Chabot, "Pierre l'Ibérien: évêque monophysite de Mayouma à la fin du Ve siècle d'après une récente publication." Revue de l'Orient latin III (1895)., : 367-93.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 17 D. M. Lang, "Peter the Iberian and his Biographers." The Journal of Ecclesiastical History vol. 2 (1951)., : 2 (1951), 158-68.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 18 Cornelia B Horn and Robert R Phenix (eds.), The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus, Writings from the Greco-Roman world, vol. 24 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Worldcat Bibliographic record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Peter the Iberian — ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܝܒܪܝܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/680.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Peter the Iberian — ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܝܒܪܝܐ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/680.

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Entry Title: Peter the Iberian — ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܝܒܪܝܐ

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  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
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