Shaʿya, Elias
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Shaʿya, Elias

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shaya-Elias http://syriaca.org/bibl/506 497 Elias Shaʿya http://syriaca.org/person/738 [person] [Village priest and educator.]

(1895–1970) [Syr. Orth.]

He was born in Barṭelle in 1895, ordained deacon by Athanasios Tumo Qaṣīr in 1928 and then a priest for Sanjār by Ignatius Eliya III Shakir . He later served as a priest in his village. He established a school and renovated the Syriac mss. of the Mart Shmuni Church. He served as an abbot of Dayro d-Mor Matay twice. He wrote on the wars of Ṭahmasab the Persian. He composed eight poems which were later published by Isḥaq Saka (Mosul, 1962).

Sources

Macuch, Geschichte, 450–1.
Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 65–6.

George A. Kiraz