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.
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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 |