Sobo, Malki al-Qas Afram
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Sobo, Malki al-Qas Afram

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Sobo-Malki-al-Qas-Afram http://syriaca.org/bibl/525 516 Malki al-Qas Afram Sobo http://syriaca.org/person/754 [person] [Priest and liturgical author.]

(1895–1979) [Syr. Orth.]

He was born in Arbo, Ṭur ʿAbdin . He was ordained a priest for Nisibis by Ignatius Eliya III Shakir in 1925, and later he migrated across the border to Qamishli. He composed in 1936 a liturgy for the celebration of the chrism which appeared at the Church of St. Jacob in Qamishli, including the hour offices and their ḥusoye. He also composed a number of mimre. The liturgy and poems were published, with a biography of the author, by George Ṣaliba in Madbro da-nṣibin (Beirut, 1984).

Sources

Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 74–5.
Macuch, Geschichte, 464.

George A. Kiraz