List of the bishops of Edessa
The following people were bishops of Edessa (now Turkey ):
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about 100 | Thaddeus | Report of Eusebius | |||||||||||||||||
before 110 | Varsimaeos | ||||||||||||||||||
approx. 190 | Aggai | Report of Eusebius | |||||||||||||||||
approx. 200 | Palut | Report of Eusebius; Contemporary witness of Serapion of Antioch |
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304 | Conon | ||||||||||||||||||
Sha'ad | Chronicle of Edessa places him between Conon and Ethalaha. | ||||||||||||||||||
324 | 346? | Ethalaha | Edessa Chronicle omits date of death. | ||||||||||||||||
346 | 361 | Abraham | |||||||||||||||||
361 | March 378 | Barses | Moves from Haran to Edessa on imperial orders . | ||||||||||||||||
379 | Good Friday 387 | Eulogius | Ordained in Theodosius' year of coronation | ||||||||||||||||
July 22, 398 | Cyrus I. | ||||||||||||||||||
397 | October 17, 398 | Silvanus | |||||||||||||||||
November 23, 398 | 409 | Pakida | |||||||||||||||||
409 | 411 | Diogenes | |||||||||||||||||
411 | August 8, 435 | Rabbula | |||||||||||||||||
435 | October 28, 457 | Ibas | Edessa Chronicle states that he was deposed on January 1, 448 and reinstated 2 years later. | ||||||||||||||||
July 21, 448 | 471 | Nun | Edessa Chronicle states that he left Edessa in 450 but returned after Ibas' death in 457. | ||||||||||||||||
471 | June 6, 498 | Cyrus II | Cyrus convinces Emperor Zenon to close the Persian school in Edessa. | ||||||||||||||||
498 | April 10, 510 | Peter | Re-enter Edessa on September 12th | ||||||||||||||||
510 | July 27, 522 | Paul | Is deposed by Patricius for his monophysitism | ||||||||||||||||
October 23, 522 | June 27, 526 | Asclepius | Dies in Antioch Paul calls him bishop of Haran. |
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March 8, 526 | October 30, 526 | Paul, again | Accepts the Council of Chalcedony ; returned after Asclepius' death. | ||||||||||||||||
February 7, 527 | December 532 | Andreas | |||||||||||||||||
August 28, 533 | unknown | Addi | The date of his death falls after the completion of the Edessa Chronicle . It is possible that there is still a bishop between Addi and Jacob Baradäus. | ||||||||||||||||
541 | July 30, 578 | Jacob Baradäus | Also abbot of Pesitta | ||||||||||||||||
578 | 602/3 | Severus | stoned by Narses | ||||||||||||||||
The episcopal succession seems to have been interrupted during the war.
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before 644 | 649/650 | Simon | Dies in Amida | ||||||||||||||||
650/651 | 664 | Cyriacus | |||||||||||||||||
664 (again 708) | 708 | Jacob II | |||||||||||||||||
668 | 708 | Habib | |||||||||||||||||
728/729 | after 745 | Constantine | Date of death not mentioned in Zuqnin's Chronicle | ||||||||||||||||
before 755 | 754/755 | Timothaeus | |||||||||||||||||
754/755 | 760/761 | Zacharias | |||||||||||||||||
760/761 | after 775 | Elijah of Qartnim | The zuqnin chronicle indicates that he was not ordained. Although the Chronicle of Zuqnin continues until 775, no more bishops are mentioned. |
- Isaiah, Bishop of Edessa (7th century)
- Johann, West Syrian Bishop of Edessa (7th century)
- Jonas, East Syrian Bishop of Edessa (7th century)
- Theodoros (9th century)
- around 1103 Benedict