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Tirhan (East Syriac diocese)

October 19, 2023

The Diocese of Tirhan was an East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East, within the central ecclesiastical Province of the Patriarch. The diocese is attested between the sixth and fourteenth centuries.

History Edit

The Tirhan district lay to the southwest of Beth Garmai, and included the triangle of land between the Jabal Hamrin (known to the Nestorians as the mountain of Uruk) and the Tigris and Diyala rivers. Its chief town was Gbiltha. The diocese of Tirhan was probably included in the Province of the Patriarch instead of the province of Beth Garmai because Seleucia-Ctesiphon was closer to Gbiltha than Kirkuk (the metropolitan seat of Beth Garmai), and could be conveniently reached by water.

The bishop Sliba-zkha of Tirhan, who flourished during the reign of the patriarch Yaʿqob II (753–73), secured permission from the Jacobite authorities for the construction of a Nestorian church in Tagrit, in return for the restoration to the Jacobites of a church in Nisibis that had earlier been confiscated by the Nestorians.[1]

Bishops of Tirhan Edit

The bishop Bar Nun of Tirhan was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Aba I in 544.[2]

The bishop Abraham of Tirhan was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Ishoʿyahb I in 585.[3]

The bishop Piroz of Tirhan was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Gregory in 605.[4]

The bishop Sargis of Tirhan was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Dairin in 676.[5]

The bishop Pethion of Tirhan was appointed by the patriarch Sliba-zkha (714–28). He was elected patriarch in 731.[6]

The bishop Sliba-zkha of Tirhan flourished during the reign of the patriarch Yaʿqob II (753–73). He is first mentioned in 753, when he was imprisoned along with Yaʿqob during the brief reign of the anti-patriarch Surin. After his release he 'began to restore the churches in Tirhan', and also won permission from the Jacobite authorities for the construction of a Nestorian church in Tagrit, in return for the restoration to the Jacobites of the church of Mar Domitius in Nisibis. This agreement, which required the consent of the Jacobite maphrian Paul of Tagrit and the Nestorian metropolitan Cyprian of Nisibis, must have been concluded no later than 757, the date of Paul's death.[7]

The bishop Sliba-zkha of Tirhan, almost certainly the same man, was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Timothy I in 790.[8]

The patriarch Sargis (860–72) appointed his disciple Qayyoma bishop of Tirhan, and later appointed him metropolitan of Nisibis, replacing him as bishop of Tirhan with the teacher Yohannan.[9]

The future patriarch Eliya I (1028–49) was bishop of Tirhan when Eliya Bar Shinaya completed his Chronography in 1018/19, and was commended by him as 'a profound and experienced student of church doctrine and the art of rhetoric'.[10]

The bishop Makkikha, son of Shlemun, of Tirhan, was consecrated by the patriarch Sabrishoʿ III shortly after his consecration in 1063/4.[11] He was present at the consecration of the patriarch ʿAbdishoʿ II in 1074.[12] He was consecrated metropolitan of Mosul by ʿAbdishoʿ II in 1085, following the death of the metropolitan Yahballaha of Mosul, and became patriarch in 1092 on ʿAbdishoʿ's death.[13]

The bishop ʿAbdishoʿ of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Makkikha I in 1092.[14]

The bishop Narsai of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Sabrishoʿ IV in 1222.[15]

The bishop and archdeacon Ishoʿyahb of 'al-Hazira', a town to the south of Samarra which Fiey argued was then the seat of the bishops of Tirhan, was present at the consecration of the patriarch Makkikha II in 1257.[16]

The bishop and archdeacon Emmanuel of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Denha I in 1265.[17]

The bishop and archdeacon Brikhishoʿ of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Yahballaha III in 1281.[18]

The bishop Shemʿon of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Timothy II in 1318.[19]

Topographical survey Edit

Shahdost of Tirhan was a noted Nestorian author, probably of the seventh or eighth century, who wrote a polemical work 'on the reasons for the separation between the Easterners and the Westerners'. Shahdost is included in the famous list of Nestorian authors compiled at the start of the fourteenth century by the metropolitan ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha of Nisibis.[20]

Gbiltha, described by Thomas of Marga as 'an orthodox [i.e. Nestorian] town in the district of Tirhan', was the birthplace of Quriaqos, the Nestorian bishop of Balad c. 800, and of Rabban Babai, famous as a teacher and builder of schools in the early decades of the eighth century.[21]

The Nestorian patriarch Sliba-zkha (714–28) was a native of Karka d'Piroz or Karkani (as the town was called in the thirteenth century) in the Tirhan district.[22]

Tagrit, the seat of the Jacobite maphrians since the seventh century, had a small Nestorian community, first mentioned around the middle of the eighth century. In 757 or a little earlier the Jacobite authorities granted the Nestorians permission to build a church in Tagrit in return for the restoration of the church of Mar Domitius in Nisibis, a Jacobite church confiscated by the Nestorians several decades earlier. Construction of the Nestorian church began in 767, on a site by the Tigris adjacent to the city's outer wall, and the church was still in existence towards the end of the thirteenth century, when it was remarked upon by Bar Hebraeus.[23]

The patriarch Makkikha I (1092–1110), who was earlier bishop of Tirhan, is said to have performed a miracle to rid the Tirhan district of a lion that was infesting the countryside around Harba and ʿAlth.[24] He also cursed a Moslem who had taken stones from a Christian church in Samarra to build a mosque, and his curse resulted in the offender's death seven days later.[25]

References Edit

Citations Edit

  1. ^ Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 156–8; Thomas of Marga, Book of Governors (ed. Wallis Budge), ii. 284
  2. ^ Chabot, 344–5
  3. ^ Chabot, 423
  4. ^ Chabot, 479
  5. ^ Chabot, 482
  6. ^ Mari, 65 (Arabic), 58 (Latin); Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 152
  7. ^ Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 156–8; Thomas of Marga, Book of Governors (ed. Wallis Budge), ii. 284
  8. ^ Chabot, 608
  9. ^ Sliba, 73 (Arabic)
  10. ^ Eliya of Nisibis, Chronography (ed. Brooks), i. 36
  11. ^ Mari, 125 (Arabic), 110 (Latin)
  12. ^ Mari, 130 (Arabic), 114 (Latin)
  13. ^ Mari, 131 (Arabic), 115 (Latin)
  14. ^ Mari, 138 (Arabic), 118 (Latin)
  15. ^ Sliba, 116 (Arabic)
  16. ^ Sliba, 120 (Arabic)
  17. ^ Sliba, 121–2 (Arabic)
  18. ^ Sliba, 124 (Arabic)
  19. ^ Assemani, BO, iii. i. 567–80
  20. ^ Tisserant, Église nestorienne, col. 277
  21. ^ Thomas of Marga, Book of Governors (ed. Wallis Budge), ii. 290, 294, 306, 347, 350, 415 and 466
  22. ^ Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 150
  23. ^ Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 156–8; Thomas of Marga, Book of Governors (ed. Wallis Budge), ii. 284
  24. ^ Mari, 139 (Arabic), 119 (Latin)
  25. ^ Mari, 138 (Arabic), 118 (Latin)

Bibliography Edit

  • Abbeloos, J. B., and Lamy, T. J., Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (3 vols, Paris, 1877)
  • Assemani, J. S., Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (4 vols, Rome, 1719–28)
  • Brooks, E. W., Eliae Metropolitae Nisibeni Opus Chronologicum (Rome, 1910)
  • Chabot, Jean-Baptiste (1902). Synodicon orientale ou recueil de synodes nestoriens (PDF). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Fiey, J. M., Assyrie chrétienne (3 vols, Beirut, 1962)
  • Fiey, Jean Maurice (1979) [1963]. Communautés syriaques en Iran et Irak des origines à 1552. London: Variorum Reprints. ISBN 9780860780519.
  • Fiey, Jean Maurice (1993). Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. Beirut: Orient-Institut. ISBN 9783515057189.
  • Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria I: Amri et Salibae Textus (Rome, 1896)
  • Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria II: Maris textus arabicus et versio Latina (Rome, 1899)
  • Tisserant, E., 'Église nestorienne', Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, 11, cols. 157–323
  • Wallis Budge, E. A., The Book of Governors: The Historia Monastica of Thomas, Bishop of Marga, AD 840 (London, 1893)
  • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.

October 19, 2023
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The Diocese of Tirhan was an East Syriac diocese of the Church of the East within the central ecclesiastical Province of the Patriarch The diocese is attested between the sixth and fourteenth centuries Contents 1 History 2 Bishops of Tirhan 3 Topographical survey 4 References 4 1 Citations 4 2 BibliographyHistory EditThe Tirhan district lay to the southwest of Beth Garmai and included the triangle of land between the Jabal Hamrin known to the Nestorians as the mountain of Uruk and the Tigris and Diyala rivers Its chief town was Gbiltha The diocese of Tirhan was probably included in the Province of the Patriarch instead of the province of Beth Garmai because Seleucia Ctesiphon was closer to Gbiltha than Kirkuk the metropolitan seat of Beth Garmai and could be conveniently reached by water The bishop Sliba zkha of Tirhan who flourished during the reign of the patriarch Yaʿqob II 753 73 secured permission from the Jacobite authorities for the construction of a Nestorian church in Tagrit in return for the restoration to the Jacobites of a church in Nisibis that had earlier been confiscated by the Nestorians 1 Bishops of Tirhan EditThe bishop Bar Nun of Tirhan was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Aba I in 544 2 The bishop Abraham of Tirhan was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Ishoʿyahb I in 585 3 The bishop Piroz of Tirhan was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Gregory in 605 4 The bishop Sargis of Tirhan was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Dairin in 676 5 The bishop Pethion of Tirhan was appointed by the patriarch Sliba zkha 714 28 He was elected patriarch in 731 6 The bishop Sliba zkha of Tirhan flourished during the reign of the patriarch Yaʿqob II 753 73 He is first mentioned in 753 when he was imprisoned along with Yaʿqob during the brief reign of the anti patriarch Surin After his release he began to restore the churches in Tirhan and also won permission from the Jacobite authorities for the construction of a Nestorian church in Tagrit in return for the restoration to the Jacobites of the church of Mar Domitius in Nisibis This agreement which required the consent of the Jacobite maphrian Paul of Tagrit and the Nestorian metropolitan Cyprian of Nisibis must have been concluded no later than 757 the date of Paul s death 7 The bishop Sliba zkha of Tirhan almost certainly the same man was among the signatories of the acts of the synod of Timothy I in 790 8 The patriarch Sargis 860 72 appointed his disciple Qayyoma bishop of Tirhan and later appointed him metropolitan of Nisibis replacing him as bishop of Tirhan with the teacher Yohannan 9 The future patriarch Eliya I 1028 49 was bishop of Tirhan when Eliya Bar Shinaya completed his Chronography in 1018 19 and was commended by him as a profound and experienced student of church doctrine and the art of rhetoric 10 The bishop Makkikha son of Shlemun of Tirhan was consecrated by the patriarch Sabrishoʿ III shortly after his consecration in 1063 4 11 He was present at the consecration of the patriarch ʿAbdishoʿ II in 1074 12 He was consecrated metropolitan of Mosul by ʿAbdishoʿ II in 1085 following the death of the metropolitan Yahballaha of Mosul and became patriarch in 1092 on ʿAbdishoʿ s death 13 The bishop ʿAbdishoʿ of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Makkikha I in 1092 14 The bishop Narsai of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Sabrishoʿ IV in 1222 15 The bishop and archdeacon Ishoʿyahb of al Hazira a town to the south of Samarra which Fiey argued was then the seat of the bishops of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Makkikha II in 1257 16 The bishop and archdeacon Emmanuel of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Denha I in 1265 17 The bishop and archdeacon Brikhishoʿ of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Yahballaha III in 1281 18 The bishop Shemʿon of Tirhan was present at the consecration of the patriarch Timothy II in 1318 19 Topographical survey EditShahdost of Tirhan was a noted Nestorian author probably of the seventh or eighth century who wrote a polemical work on the reasons for the separation between the Easterners and the Westerners Shahdost is included in the famous list of Nestorian authors compiled at the start of the fourteenth century by the metropolitan ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha of Nisibis 20 Gbiltha described by Thomas of Marga as an orthodox i e Nestorian town in the district of Tirhan was the birthplace of Quriaqos the Nestorian bishop of Balad c 800 and of Rabban Babai famous as a teacher and builder of schools in the early decades of the eighth century 21 The Nestorian patriarch Sliba zkha 714 28 was a native of Karka d Piroz or Karkani as the town was called in the thirteenth century in the Tirhan district 22 Tagrit the seat of the Jacobite maphrians since the seventh century had a small Nestorian community first mentioned around the middle of the eighth century In 757 or a little earlier the Jacobite authorities granted the Nestorians permission to build a church in Tagrit in return for the restoration of the church of Mar Domitius in Nisibis a Jacobite church confiscated by the Nestorians several decades earlier Construction of the Nestorian church began in 767 on a site by the Tigris adjacent to the city s outer wall and the church was still in existence towards the end of the thirteenth century when it was remarked upon by Bar Hebraeus 23 The patriarch Makkikha I 1092 1110 who was earlier bishop of Tirhan is said to have performed a miracle to rid the Tirhan district of a lion that was infesting the countryside around Harba and ʿAlth 24 He also cursed a Moslem who had taken stones from a Christian church in Samarra to build a mosque and his curse resulted in the offender s death seven days later 25 References EditCitations Edit Bar Hebraeus Ecclesiastical Chronicle ed Abeloos and Lamy ii 156 8 Thomas of Marga Book of Governors ed Wallis Budge ii 284 Chabot 344 5 Chabot 423 Chabot 479 Chabot 482 Mari 65 Arabic 58 Latin Bar Hebraeus Ecclesiastical Chronicle ed Abeloos and Lamy ii 152 Bar Hebraeus Ecclesiastical Chronicle ed Abeloos and Lamy ii 156 8 Thomas of Marga Book of Governors ed Wallis Budge ii 284 Chabot 608 Sliba 73 Arabic Eliya of Nisibis Chronography ed Brooks i 36 Mari 125 Arabic 110 Latin Mari 130 Arabic 114 Latin Mari 131 Arabic 115 Latin Mari 138 Arabic 118 Latin Sliba 116 Arabic Sliba 120 Arabic Sliba 121 2 Arabic Sliba 124 Arabic Assemani BO iii i 567 80 Tisserant Eglise nestorienne col 277 Thomas of Marga Book of Governors ed Wallis Budge ii 290 294 306 347 350 415 and 466 Bar Hebraeus Ecclesiastical Chronicle ed Abeloos and Lamy ii 150 Bar Hebraeus Ecclesiastical Chronicle ed Abeloos and Lamy ii 156 8 Thomas of Marga Book of Governors ed Wallis Budge ii 284 Mari 139 Arabic 119 Latin Mari 138 Arabic 118 Latin Bibliography Edit Abbeloos J B and Lamy T J Bar Hebraeus Chronicon Ecclesiasticum 3 vols Paris 1877 Assemani J S Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino Vaticana 4 vols Rome 1719 28 Brooks E W Eliae Metropolitae Nisibeni Opus Chronologicum Rome 1910 Chabot Jean Baptiste 1902 Synodicon orientale ou recueil de synodes nestoriens PDF Paris Imprimerie Nationale Fiey J M Assyrie chretienne 3 vols Beirut 1962 Fiey Jean Maurice 1979 1963 Communautes syriaques en Iran et Irak des origines a 1552 London Variorum Reprints ISBN 9780860780519 Fiey Jean Maurice 1993 Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus Repertoire des dioceses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux Beirut Orient Institut ISBN 9783515057189 Gismondi H Maris Amri et Salibae De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria I Amri et Salibae Textus Rome 1896 Gismondi H Maris Amri et Salibae De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria II Maris textus arabicus et versio Latina Rome 1899 Tisserant E Eglise nestorienne Dictionnaire de Theologie Catholique 11 cols 157 323 Wallis Budge E A The Book of Governors The Historia Monastica of Thomas Bishop of Marga 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