Giwargis I
patriarch of the Church of the East
b. 7th century · d. 680
38th Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 661–c. 680
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 38 · c. 661 – c. 680
Giwargis I was patriarch of the Church of the East from 661 to 680.
Related people
- Ishoyahb III succeeded · inferred
- Isaac the Syrian consecrator of · traditional
- Yohannan I preceded · inferred
Places
- Beth Garmaï 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)
- Chronique de Michel le Syrien 1 claim — t. III, p. 522 (Appendice VI, no. XVI)
- Synodicon Orientale 1 claim — synod of George I (676)