John VII of Antioch

John VII of Antioch was patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch from 965 to 1985 ; his surname Sarigtā (the ragged one) refers to his own ascetic unpretentiousness.

Initially a monk in the Tarˤēb monastery near Aleppo , John was ordained patriarch on July 9, 965 by Bishop Sergios von Sarug . Soon afterwards, at the invitation of Emperor Nikephoros II , he settled the depopulated region around Melitene with members of his church and founded the patriarchal monastery of Bārīd, 40 kilometers north of Germanikeia , as his residence there . In 968 he was summoned to Constantinople by the Emperor for union negotiations with the Byzantine Church and temporarily imprisoned there. He reports on the talks in a synodal letter of August 23, 969 to the Coptic Patriarch Menas II. John died in 985.

literature

Thomas H. Benner: The Syrian-Jacobite Church under Byzantine rule in the 10th and 11th centuries , Diss. Theol. Marburg 1989, 25-53. 145.

Individual evidence

^ Arabic text with Latin translation by Joseph S. Assemanus: Bibliotheca Orientalis Clemntino-Vaticana , Vol. 2. Romae 1721, 133–140; German: Thomas H. Benner: The Syrian-Jacobite Church under Byzantine rule in the 10th and 11th centuries , Diss. theol. Marburg 1989, 137-144.

personal data
SURNAME	John VII of Antioch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
DATE OF BIRTH	9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH	985

[1] Arabic text with Latin translation by Joseph S. Assemanus: Bibliotheca Orientalis Clemntino-Vaticana , Vol. 2. Romae 1721, 133–140; German: Thomas H. Benner: The Syrian-Jacobite Church under Byzantine rule in the 10th and 11th centuries , Diss. theol. Marburg 1989, 137-144.