Chronicon Ecclesiasticum

Bar Hebraeus (Gregory Abu'l-Faraj); ed. Abbeloos and Lamy · 1872 · Oriental Orthodox · public-domain-original

49 claims in this dataset rest on this source.

The source

Bishops it dates

Antioch

People it attests

What else rests on it

1 institution

The Syriac Orthodox church's account of its own succession, Syriac with a facing LATIN translation. Its structure is the reason to cite it: section I numbers the patriarchs of Antioch 1-118 in ONE Petrine series and does not restart at the schism, and the editors' footnote at col. 213 says so outright - from Sergius of Tella (no. 46, c. 542) Bar Hebraeus omits the Chalcedonian patriarchs and follows the miaphysite line. Section II (tomus III) numbers the maphrians of the East 23-70, continuing the count from the primates of Seleucia rather than beginning again. LATE AND PARTISAN: written c. 1280, six centuries after the era this dataset covers, compiling Dionysius of Tel Mahre and Michael the Syrian; a compiler, not a witness. THE SECTION NUMBERS ARE ABBELOOS AND LAMY'S, not Bar Hebraeus's: they run in the Latin column and are not free of error - Sergius of Tella is printed 45 where 45 is already Ephraemius, so no 46 appears and his place in the series is an inference.