Acacius
patriarch in the 5th century
b. 5th century
23rd Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 485–c. 496
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 23 · c. 485 – c. 496
Acacius was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 485 to 496. His tenure was marked by internal christological and ecclesiological disputes. He struggled to prevent the Church of the East from aligning itself with the 'Nestorian' doctrine espoused by the metropolitan Barsauma of Nisibis. He is included in the traditional list of patriarchs of the Church of the East.
Related people
Places
- Al-Hirah death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Maris, Amri et Slibae De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria (the Book of the Tower) 1 claim — Maris, De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria (ed. Gismondi)
- Chronique de Michel le Syrien 1 claim — t. III, p. 520 (Appendice VI, no. I)
- Synodicon Orientale 1 claim — synod of Acacius (486)
Glosses
- Where Michael's list of the East begins Michael the Syrian closes his chronicle with an appendix headed the names of the Nestorian catholicoi, and it numbers forty men. Its first is Acacius, who belongs about 485; the twenty-two this line carries before him…