Babowai
philosopher
b. 5th century · d. 484
22nd Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 457–c. 484
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 22 · c. 457 – c. 484
Babowai was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 457 to 484, during the reign of the Sassanid King Peroz I. Babowai was known for his pro-Byzantine leanings, for which he was often in conflict with other members of the anti-Byzantine Church of the East. He was executed in 484.
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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. II, pp. 123-124 (livre VIII, ch. XIV) and pp. 434-439 (livre XI, ch. IX)
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…