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Patriarchs, Bishops and Monasteries in the Syriac Consecration Lists, c. 800–1000
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2025
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This article offers a new chapter in the history of the Severan Miaphysite church, the ancestor-institution of the modern-day Syriac Orthodox. It employs the consecration lists in Michael the Syrian’s 12th-century chronicle to investigate changing patterns of authority, and relationships between monasteries and episcopal sees, in a period poorly served by narrative sources. The home monastery of the Miaphysite patriarchs corresponds to shifts in political authority from Abbasid Raqqa, to Hamdanid Aleppo, to Byzantine Melitene, but this did not preclude the survival of local patterns of patronage. Clusters of patronage, identified using historical network analysis, are not geographically segregated, and this helps to explain the relative stability of the network, which did not see major attempts at secession in this period. The patterns in these lists help us to establish the places where narrative sources highlight unusual phenomena, and where the phenomena they report are typical features of the relationships between bishops and monasteries.
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1 My thanks to Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, David Gyllenhaal, Aslisho Qurboniev, Valerie Turner, David Taylor, and Peter Verkinderen, for their advice and assistance. Thanks also goes to audiences at Cambridge and AKU-ISMC. I use Jean Maurice Fiey, Pour Un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des Diocèses Syriaques Orientaux (Franz Steiner, 1993) for data on the incumbents of see, which is preferable to Giorgio Fedalto, Hierarchia ecclesiastica orientalis: series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Massagero, 1988) on the subject of this paper. The lists have not been used intensively in recent years, but they were drawn on by Ernst Honigmann, Le Couvent de Barsauma et le Patriarcat jacobite d’Antioche et de Syrie (Durbecq, 1954) and Ephrem Barsaum, History of the Syriac Dioceses, tr. M. Moosa (Piscataway NJ, 2009) (a work originally composed in the 1920s).
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10 If we were dealing with a list compiled by Michael from (say) the consecration lists given in colophons I would expect coverage to be much more patchy, but the number of bishops given in Michael’s list is roughly proportionate to the reign of each patriarch.
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12 In network theory these are Degree Centrality and Betweenness Centrality.
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27 They have very high centrality on a number of different measures. They also dominate distinct Newman clusters within the network.
28 In technical terms, Qartmin enjoyed the highest Bonacich Power Centrality in both phase I and II, and it is second placed in phases III and IV as well. See the definition provided in https://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/C10_Centrality.html#Bonacich
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36 I owe this point to David Gyllenhaal.
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43 The monastery of Barsauma, likewise, long predates the tenth-century colonization and is first attested as the burial site of the patriarch George of Beltan in 790: Honigmann, Ernst, Le Couvent de Barsauma et le Patriarcat jacobite d’Antioche et de Syrie (Leuven: Durbecq, 1954), 47 Google Scholar. Honigmann, Ernst, “Neronias-Irenopolis in Eastern Cilicia,” Byzantion 20 (1950): 39–61 Google Scholar; at p. 57 argues that the see of Irenopolis was abandoned after a devastating Byzantine raid in 915 depopulated the city.
44 Honigmann, Ernst, Evêques et évêchés monophysites d’Asie antérieure au 6e siècle (Durbecq, 1951), 179–188 Google Scholar. On the Tritheists in general see Alois Grillmeier and Theresia Hainthaler with Luise Abramowski, Christ in Christian Tradition. Volume 2: From the Council of Chalcedon 9451) to Gregory the Great (590–604). Part 3: The Churches of Jerusalem and Antioch (Oxford University Press, 2013), 268–280.
45 MS XI. 6 (4:416–417, 2:422–423).
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49 The succession for this see is unclear. Fiey, Pour Un Oriens Christianus Novus, 181 gives only two incumbents, Basil (XXII, 47) and Cyriacus (XXIII, 40). But the list names a bishop of Bithynia and Ardeat ordained by Cyriacus of Takrit (XVII, 71) and another was ordained by John bar Abdoun (XXXI, 7), and another by Athanasius VII (XLI, 2) so it may be that the community in Bithynia had a longer existence, even if it only periodically received a bishop.
50 Theophanes (422, 427–429, 451–452) with Kaldellis, Romanland, 221 describes deportations of Miaphysites into Thrace in the eighth century, which does not seem to have generated any new episcopal sees.
51 MS XII. 16 (4:522, 3:67) for the meeting at Kaysum. Kaysum was also heavily fortified during the fourth fitna: MS XII. 7 (4:494, 3:27).
52 For this sixth-century background see now Walter Beers, “The Tottering House of the World”: The Ruralization of the Miaphysite Church in the Works of John of Ephesus (c. 507–88 C.E.),’ PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 2022.
53 Fiey, Pour Un Oriens Christianus Novus, 204, 254.
54 MS XI. 23 (4:469, 2:514).
55 Fiey, Pour Un Oriens Christianus Novus, 272.
56 MS XII. 6 (4:491, 3:23–24). Kumit was then a village inhabited by the Tanukh, a Christian Arab group. The Gubbites were also supported by one John of Kokta, Kokta being another minor settlement that is unlocated.
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58 MS XI. 19 (4:456, 2: 491).
59 MS XII. 8 (4:496, 3:32) for Bostra and MS XII. 7 (4:491, 3:24) for Mopsuestia.
60 Asa Eger, The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange between Muslim and Christian Communities (I. B. Tauris, 2014), 173 and 176 for ‘Abd al-Malik’s development of Mopsuestia in c. 700, when it was walled and given a mosque, after which it was further enlarged by successive Umayyad caliphs. The site was inhabited until the 13th century at least.
61 This is Bonacich centrality, the degree to which a node dominates the ability of other nodes to connect to the rest of a network. https://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/C10_Centrality.html#Bonacich.
62 Wood, Imam of the Christians, 118–119.
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64 For instance, in phase I, Qartmin has a high numbers of links, because of its consistent control of Tur Abdin, Dara, and Harran. But its hub centrality, which is determined by having links to nodes that also have in-links to many other nodes, is much lower than for monasteries like Mar Zakkai, the easterners, the mountain of Edessa, and Mar Hanania. Mar Mattai may have enjoyed a similar dominance in northern Iraq, but this is impossible to trace. Both Qartmin and Mar Mattai were unusual in being the seats of bishops. The Matteans are identified as having a bloc vote in synods: MS XI. 23 (4:470, 2:516) is a striking example, where one Mattean bishop signs for the rest of his party at the synod of Tella in 752.
65 See further https://hypermode.com/blog/community-detection-algorithms. Newman clusters are normally used for relatively small data sets such as this.
66 Because the geodata is only partial, the visualization does not display all links, but it can show Newman clusters for the nodes that are located, and the impression of the geographic mixing of the clusters is clear.
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