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

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Baselios-Gewargis http://syriaca.org/bibl/95 86 http://syriaca.org/person/375 [person] [Scribe and bp. of al-Bsheriyyeh (1707-48).]

(d. 1748) [Syr. Orth.]

Scribe and bp. of al-Bsheriyyeh (1707–48). He was born in Aleppo to Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Nūr and Naslikhan. He became a monk in 1701, and was later ordained priest. Baselios was consecrated bp. of Bsheriyyeh in 1707, after which he built a monastery dedicated to Mor Quryaqos with assistance from Patr. Giwargis II , Bp. ʿAbd al-Aḥad of Jerusalem , and Bp. Giwargi of Edessa . He died in 1748 and was buried in the monastery he built. He was a talented scribe. Patr. Afram Barsoum discovered an Anaphora by Baselios at Dayr al-Zaʿfarān .

Sources

A. Barsoum, PatMagJe 5 (1938), 144.

George A. Kiraz