Shahlufa
Shahlufa (
Classical Syriac: ܫܚܠܘܦܐ, romanized: šaḥlūfā, lit. 'Substitute') was a legendary primate of the Church of the East
, who is conventionally believed to have reigned from 220 to 224 A.D.
Sources
Brief accounts of the life of Shahlufa are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer
writers Mari (twelfth-century), ʿAmr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century). These accounts differ slightly, and these minor differences are of significance for scholars interested in tracing the various stages in the development of the legend.Although Shahlufa is included in traditional lists of primates of the
Persia.[1]
Life of Shahlufa
The following brief account of the life of Shahlufa is given by Bar-Hebraeus:
After
See also
Notes
References
- Abbeloos, J. B., and Lamy, T. J., Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (3 vols, Paris, 1877)
- Assemani, J. A., De Catholicis seu Patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum (Rome, 1775)
- Brooks, E. W., Eliae Metropolitae Nisibeni Opus Chronologicum (Rome, 1910)
- Fiey, J. M., Jalons pour un histoire de l'Église en Iraq (Louvain, 1970)
- Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria I: Amri et Salibae Textus (Rome, 1896)
- Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria II: Maris textus arabicus et versio Latina (Rome, 1899)
