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ʿAbdishoʿ bar Yoḥannan d-Beth Maron, monk of the monastery of Mar Aḥa the
Egyptian, in the region of Gazarta (Cizre), participated in the Synod which
deposed Patr. Shemʿon VII bar Mama (1552) and elected
He wrote three Syriac panegyrics of unequal length on his predecessor. The
first describes the alleged debaucheries of Patr. Shemʿon VII bar Mama, the
election of Yoḥannan Sullaqa, his journey to Rome and his profession of
faith submitted to the Pope, his consecration as archbishop and
madrāšā. He composed in Syriac a profession of
faith, destined to the Roman authorities (original lost, preserved in
different Latin redactions and a retroversion into Syriac), an acrostic turgāmā in honor of Pope Paul IV, several liturgical
pieces, a grammatical poem, and a memrā on the
soul.