Babai
Patriarch of the Church of the East
d. 6th century
24th Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 497–c. 503
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 24 · c. 497 – c. 503
Babai, also Babaeus, was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 497 to 503. Under his leadership, the Church in Sasanian Empire (Persia) became increasingly aligned with the Nestorian movement, declared heretical in the Roman Empire.
Related people
Places
- Seleucia birth
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)
- Synodicon Orientale 1 claim — synod of Babai (497)