Bar Sawma of Seleucia-Ctesiphon explained

Honorific-Prefix:Mar
Bar Sawma
Church:Church of the East
See:Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Patriarch Of:Patriarch of the Church of the East
Patriarch of All the East
Enthroned:1134
Ended:1136
Predecessor:Eliya II
Successor:Abdisho III
Death Date:1136

Bar Sawma was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1134 to 1136.

Sources

Brief accounts of Bar Sawma's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus and in the ecclesiastical histories of the fourteenth-century Nestorian writers and .

Bar Sawma's patriarchate

The following account of Bar Sawma's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus (who erroneously placed him after the patriarch Makkikha I instead of Eliya II):

Bar Sawma was consecrated catholicus of the Nestorians on Sunday, 4 ab [August] in the year 528 of the Arabs [AD 1134] in succession to Makkikha bar Shlemun. This Bar Sawma lived a life of bitterness, on account of the heavy burdens that were laid upon him, and was constantly praying for a quick and early death. His prayers were answered, for after fulfilling his office for only one year and five months, he died on the eleventh day of the former kanun [December] in the year 533 of the Arabs [AD 1136].[1]

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References

Notes and References

  1. Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 328