Yuḥanon XIV bar Shayullāh
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Yuḥanon XIV bar Shayullāh

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yuhanon-XIV-bar-Shayullah http://syriaca.org/bibl/615 606 Gregorios Yuḥanon http://syriaca.org/person/830 [person] [Translator, scribe, minor writer, and bp.]

Gregorios Yuḥanon (ca. 1705[?]–1783) [Syr. Orth.]

Translator, scribe, minor writer, and bp. He was born Yuḥanon bar Shuqayr in Aleppo . His family was originally from Ṣadad and is mentioned in ms. sources as early as 1527. He became a monk in Dayr Mār Mūsā al-Ḥabashī and was later ordained priest there. He became the vicar of Damascus in 1752 and was consecrated its bp. in 1754 in Amid . He died in June 1783 and was buried in Damascus.

His literary works include: 1. A translation of the Chronicle of Michael Rabo into Arabic in 1759, based on two Syr. mss.; 2. He may have authored the biographies of four patriarchs and the lists of the bishops they consecrated from 1687–1759; 3. A letter on the Orthodox faith, probably against Michael Jarweh; 4. Hymns in colloquial Arabic, some of which are used today.

Sources

Barsoum, in PatrMagJer 7 (1940), 186–89.

George A. Kiraz