Michael I, the Syrian, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, 1126-1199

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Name (Latin)
Michael I, the Syrian, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, 1126-1199
Name (Arabic)
ميخائيل الأول (السرياني، بطريرك أنطاكية)، 1126-1199
Other forms of name
Michael I, the Syrian, Patriarch of Antioch, 1126-1199
Michael, Mōr, Patriarch of Antioch, 1126-1199
Michel, le Syrien, Patriarch of Antioch, 1126-1199
Mīkhāʼīl, al-Suryānī al-Kabīr, Patriarch of Antioch, 1126-1199
Michael, Rabo, Patriarch of Antioch, 1126-1199
Rabo, Michael, 1126-1199
ميخائيل الأول (مار، بطريرك أنطاكية)، 1126-1199
ميخائيل الكبير، 1126-1199
ميخائيل السرياني، 1126-1199
ميخائيل السرياني الكبير، 1126-1199
مار ميخائيل السرياني، 1126-1199
السرياني، ميخائيل، 1126-1199
Date of birth
1126
Date of death
1199
Place of birth
Malatya (Turkey)
Other associated place
Antioch (Turkey)
Associate group
Syrian Orthodox Church
Associated Language
syc
Gender
male
Language
Classical Syriac
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 12704144
Wikidata: Q129020
Library of congress: nr 97007289
Sources of Information
  • Maktebanut zabne, 1996:volume 1, title page (Mār Mīkhāʼīl al-Suryānī al-Kabīr, Baṭriyark Anṭākīyah [in Arabic]) page 4 of cover (Michael the Syrian; Michel Le Syrien, died 1199)
  • New Catholic encyclopedia(Michael I, the Syrian, Patriarch of Antioch; Jacobite patriarch, historian, born 1126 in Malatya, Turkey, died 1199)
  • Die "Beschreibung der Zeiten" von Mōr Michael dem Grossen (1126-1199), 2003.
  • The Syriac Chronicle of Michael Rabo (the Great), 2014:title page (Michael Rabo (the Great)) page 18 (Michael Rabo, patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church from 1166 to 1199; known as "Rabo" (Syriac for "great"); born in Melitene, now Malatya, Turkey, in 1126; died November 7, 1199)
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Wikipedia description:

Michael the Syrian (Arabic: ميخائيل السرياني, romanized: Mīkhaʾēl el Sūryani:),(Classical Syriac: ܡܺܝܟ݂ܳܐܝܶܠ ܣܽܘܪܝܳܝܳܐ, romanized: Mīkhoʾēl Sūryoyo), died AD 1199, also known as Michael the Great (Syriac: ܡܺܝܟ݂ܳܐܝܶܠ ܪܰܒ݁ܳܐ, romanized: Mīkhoʾēl Rabo) or Michael Syrus or Michael the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew, was a patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1166 to 1199. He is best known today as the author of the largest medieval Chronicle, which he wrote in the Syriac language. Some other works and fragments written by him have also survived.

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