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History of the Zaʻfarān Monastery / Aphram (Ephrem) I. Barsoum ; translated by Matti Moosa.
Van Pelt Library BX2683.D39 B3713 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ighnāṭyūs Afrām I, Patriarch of Antioch, 1887-1957.
- Series:
- Publications of the Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Eastern United States ; 7.
- Publications of the Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Eastern United States ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Syriac, Modern
- Subjects (All):
- Dayr Zaʻfarān (Monastery : Turkey)--History.
- Dayr Zaʻfarān (Monastery : Turkey).
- Monasteries--Turkey--Mardin İli.
- Monasteries.
- History.
- Mardin İli (Turkey)--Church history.
- Mardin İli (Turkey).
- Turkey--Mardin İli.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 85 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First Gorgias Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- The location of the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The Church of Mar Hananya
- The Sayyida (Virgin Mary) Church
- Church of the patriarchal throne
- The mausoleum or burial chamber of fathers
- The paradise
- The origin of the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- Monasticism in Mardin and its outskirts
- The different names of the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The biography of metropolitan Yuhanna of Mardin
- Yuhanna's narrative about the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The rebuilding of the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- Biographies of the known superiors of the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The monastic order of the Zaʻfarān Monastery in its early ages
- The Zaʻfarān Monastery as center of the Patriarchal See of Antioch
- The councils convened at the Zaʻfarān Monastery to elect patriarchs
- The names of patriarchs and maphryone ascribed to the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The Metropolitans who graduated from the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The fathers buried in the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- Patriarchs of Antioch
- The patriarchs of Tur Abdin
- The Maphryone of the East
- The Metropolitans
- The councils convened at the Zaʻfarān Monastery and their canons
- Learning and learned men at the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The library of the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The properties of the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The monasteries neighboring the Zaʻfarān Monastery
- The Sayyida Monastery
- Mar Jacob Monastery
- Mar Azazel Monastery
- Mar Behnam Monastery
- Mardin : its diocese and bishops.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781593336394
- 159333639X
- OCLC:
- 243941636
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