Paul of Aleppo

WritingsThe Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of AntiochTitleArchdeacon

Paul Za'im, known sometime also as Paul of Aleppo (Paul,

chronicler. Son of Patriarch Macarius III Ibn al-Za'im, Paul accompanied his father in his travels throughout Constantinople, Wallachia, Moldavia, Ukraine (as Cossack Country) and Russia

(as Muscovy), as an attempt to raise funds and support for their Church (from 1652 to 1659, and from 1666 to 1669).

Life and works

He was born in 1627 in Aleppo, the same year his mother died. He was appointed a reader on May 8, 1642. On February 17, 1644, he married, and on November 21, 1647, he was ordained archdeacon.

Georgia^[2] on January 30, 1669.^[3]

Paul wrote down an account of his visits, The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch (edited in

Bohdan-Zynoviy Khmelnytsky

).

He wrote also a History of the Patriarchs of Antioch.[2]

Notes

^ Raheb, Abdallah (1981). Conception of the Union in the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (1622 - 1672) (PDF). Beirut. pp. 79, 81 and note 376. Retrieved 20 January 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b Graf, Georg (1960). "22. Paulus von Aleppo". Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, Volume 3. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. p. 110.
^ See (in Russian): Фонкич Б.Л. "О дате кончины Павла Алеппского": in: Очерки феодальной России. 13. М.-СПб.: Альянс-Архео, 2009, pp.289-292
^ English translation from Arabic in: Belfour, C., ed. (1836). Travels of Macarios, Patriarch of Antioch. London.