Saba, Boutros
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
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Saba, Boutros

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Saba-Boutros http://syriaca.org/bibl/468 459 Boutros Saba http://syriaca.org/person/707 [person] [Priest, teacher, and poet.]

(1893–1961) [Syr. Cath.]

He was born in Barṭelle , studied at Sharfeh from 1906, and then at the Syriac Catholic Seminary in Jerusalem . In 1914 he returned to Mosul , and was ordained a priest in 1919. He taught at the Seminary of St. John in Mosul, then at Sharfeh from 1937. He then served in Baghdad . In addition to his other writings, he composed in Syriac a number of poems (a few published according to Abūna).

Sources

Abūna, Adab, 562–3.
Macuch, Geschichte, 445–6.

George A. Kiraz