Also known as:
Catholicos Mar Aba I, Patriarch Mar Aba I, Mar Abba I
MAR ABA I. - Nestorian patriarch, b. at Ḥālè near the Tigris, ordained at the beginning of 540 and d. 29 February 552. Converted to Christianity while he was a clerk, he attended the theological school of Nisibis, learned Greek and visited Palestine, Egypt, Greece and Constantinople, where around 525 he made the acquaintance of Cosmas Indicopleustes.
Having returned to Nisibis, he taught there, until he was then elected katholikós. He worked for reconciliation, went as far as Elam in Persia and founded the theological school of Seleucia-Ctesiphon. The magi obtained (541) from the Emperor the exile of M. A., who gathered around himself an assembly of bishops intended to codify decrees and canons. In 548 he fled to Seleucia, but was arrested, until after 3 years Khosrow I freed him in order to send him to quell the revolt of his son, a task which he successfully accomplished.
A compendium of matrimonial law by M. A. is preserved (ed. E. Sachau, Syrische Rechtsbücher, III, Berlin 1914, pp. 255-58).
BibliographyA. Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur, Bonn 1922, pp. 119-20.
BIBL.: A. Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur, Bonn 1922, pp. 119-20.
Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio. “MĀR ĀBĀ I.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, p. 27. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/mar-aba-i.
MLA
Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio. “MĀR ĀBĀ I.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, p. 27. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/mar-aba-i.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_mar_aba_i,
author = {Ortiz, de Urbina Ignazio},
title = {MĀR ĀBĀ I},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/mar-aba-i}
}
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