Monastery of Bārid
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Established | 969 |
| Disestablished | After 1213 |
| Diocese | Diocese of Gihon |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | John V Sarigta |
| Site | |
| Location | Close to Melitene |
The monastery of Bārid was a Syriac Orthodox monastery near Melitene in Turkey.
History
[edit]The Byzantine reconquest of Melitene and the surrounding regions resulted in golden age for the Syriac Orthodox community and its monasteries between 950 and 1020.[1] According to Michael the Syrian, the Syriac patriarch John V Sarigta took up the offer of emperor Nikephoros II Phokas to live in Byzantine territory in exchange for the cessation of persecution by the Byzantine authorities, but this argumentation has been questioned by recent scholarship.[2] Nevertheless, John V is supposed to have build the church and convent in the year 1280 of the Assyrian calendar (around the year 969 AD).[3] After him, two more patriarchs lived at the monastery, which numbered to more than a thousand monks.[4]
The monastery produced one patriarch, one maphryono and eighteen bishops and metropolitans.[3]
John VIII bar Abdoun was the last of the patriarchs to reside in the monastery up to 1029, when an imperial delegation sought to detain the patriarch and bring him to Constantinople. Though the local magistrate, krites Chrysoberges, had tried to arrange for the escape of John, the delegation determined John's location at the monastery through bribery and led him to Constantinople.[5]
The last mention of the monastery is in 1213.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Chatonnet & Debie 2023, p. 180.
- ^ Gyllenhaal 2021, pp. 208–213.
- ^ a b c Carlson 2014.
- ^ Chatonnet & Debie 2023, p. 181.
- ^ Gyllenhaal 2021, p. 225.
Sources
[edit]- Carlson, Thomas A. (2014). "Barid — ܕܝܪܐ ܕܒܐܪܝܕ". Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- Chatonnet, Francoise Briquel; Debie, Muriel (20 June 2023). The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-27125-6. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- Gyllenhaal, David (2021). "Byzantine Melitene and the Social Milieu of the Syriac Renaissance". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 75: 205–236. ISSN 0070-7546. Retrieved 14 November 2024.