Athanasios Aṣlan
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Athanasios Aṣlan

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Athanasios-Aslan http://syriaca.org/bibl/69 60 http://syriaca.org/person/353 [person] [Scribe, minor author, and translator.]

(d. 1741) [Syr. Orth.]

Scribe, minor author, and translator. He was born in Amid to ʿAbd al-Nūr and Narzkhan. Two of his brothers, Thoma and Yawseph, became priests. Athanasios became a monk at Dayr al-Zaʿfarān ca. 1697 and was ordained priest before 1705. After he studied under Maph. Shemʿun II , Athanasios was consecrated in 1707 as assisting bp. for the patriarchate (in other accounts bp. of Aleppo ) and was given the honorific name Athanasios. In 1714, he was appointed bp. of Amid. Athanasios died in 1741; it is said that healing miracles took place on his tomb. He was a skilful scribe.

Athanasios translated into Arabic a number of works including ḥusoye, Mushe bar Kipho ’s ‘Expositions of the Sacraments’, and two of Shemʿun II’s books, one on theology and the other on the sacraments. He composed a few sermons in Arabic.

Sources

A. Barsaum, PatMagJer 5 (1938), 142–3.

George A. Kiraz