Addai of Edessa (redirect from Mar Addai)
According to Eastern Christian tradition, Addai of Edessa (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ, Mar Addai or Mor Aday sometimes Latinized Addeus) or Thaddeus of Edessa was one...
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Isaac of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (redirect from Mar Isaac (bishop))
a very noble and virtuous man, from the family of the catholicus Tuhma Tomarsa. After the bishops consecrated him, they enjoined him to behave as an obedient...
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abandoned in 345 AD due to persecutions against the Church of the East. 15. Tomarsa (Toumarsa) (346–370 AD) 16. Qayyoma (Qaioma) (371–399 AD) Isaac was recognised...
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name of Christ, he first killed 100,000 of them, and then a further 30,000. Mar Miles died a martyr, and with him many other bishops. Shapur then arrested...
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ordained them to replace the fathers who had been martyred with the holy Mar Shemʿon. Among them was Barbaʿshmin, the nephew of Shemʿon bar Sabbaʿe. They...
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