The School of the Persians
School · no year is recorded · Edessa
The school where the Persians studied at Edessa, and the seedbed of the Church of the East: Narsai, Barsauma and Acacius were all taught in it. Ibas promoted it while he was bishop; a later bishop of Edessa had it razed and put a church of the Mother of God on the ground it had stood on.
No year is recorded anywhere. The sources that carry this house never date its founding, so the era is fixed by a dated person instead — that is not a founding date. Fixed by Ibas of Edessa (457).
Who
- Ibas of Edessa Patron · John of Ephesus calls him the school's promoter — 'Hiba the blasphemer who was once ruler there made himself a promoter of that same school' — and Le Quien places him at Edessa in the years before the closure. Patron, not founder: no source in bronze says who founded it.
Where
- Edessa the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other school houses
- The School of Nisibis not before 472 · Nisibis
After Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus · t. II coll. 961–962.