Rabban Hormizd
The Rabban Hormizd monastery was and is an important monastic institution of the Christian Eastern Syrians, initially the " Assyrian Church of the East ", from 1830 and today the Chaldean Catholic Church . It is north of Mosul , about three kilometers northeast of Alqosh on the slopes of the mountains. It was founded in the 7th century. From the middle of the 16th century to 1804 the monastery was the official residence of the East Syrian Catholicos- Patriarch of Seleukeia-Ctesiphon. Several graves and epitaphs of the patriarchs have been preserved. The depopulated complex, claimed by the patriarchal family as property, was re-established in 1830 by Gabriel Dambo as a monastery for Chaldean Catholic monks (not to be confused with the Notre Dame des Semences monastery at the foot of the same mountain range). The last of the monks of Rabban Hormizd died in 2011.
Eight dated manuscripts (11th – 13th centuries) have survived from the old scriptorium of the monastery. A considerable part of the library was lost during Nadir Shah's campaigns .
literature
- Vincent van Vossel: Couvents du Nord de l'Iraq . In: Orientalia Christiana Periodica 80 (2014) 35–85, here 38–43.
- Amir Harrak: Patriarchal Funerary Inscriptions in the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd . In: Hugoye 5, 2 (2003) 293-309.
- S. Bello: La congrégation de S. Hormisdas et l'Eglise chaldéenne dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle . Roma 1939.
- HGB Teule: The Contribution of Monastic Order of Rabban Hormizd to the Spiritual and Theological Orientations of the Chaldean Church in Iraq in the 19th Century : In: GS Kuttiyil - G. Ayyaneth (eds.): Monasticism Meeting Modernity: Oriental Christian and Indian Perspectives and challenges . Bethany Vedavijnana Peeth, Pune, India 2019, 156–167.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sebastian Brock: A tentative check list of dated Syriac manuscripts up to 1300 . In: Hugoye 15 (2012) 21-48, esp. 45
Coordinates: 36 ° 44 ′ 56.3 " N , 43 ° 6 ′ 52.5" E