Paul the Black
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
d. 581
39th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
Offices
Paul II the Black, also known as Paul of Bēth Ukkāme, was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from c. 551 or 564 to his deposition in 578. He succeeded Sergius of Tella as the spiritual leader of the Syrian non-Chalcedonians, in opposition to the Chalcedonian Imperial Church, and led the nascent Syriac Orthodox Church as it endured division and persecution.
Related people
- Sergius of Tella succeeded · inferred
- Peter of Callinicum preceded · inferred
Places
- Constantinople death
- Alexandria birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Chronicon Ecclesiasticum 1 claim — Chronicon Ecclesiasticum I, the Antiochene series