Rabbula of Edessa
Also: Rabbulas, Rabula
Born perhaps between 340 and 360, probably in Chalcis ad Belum (Qenneshrin), now Qinnasrin, Syria. Died between 435 and 436, in Edessa (now Şanlıurfa, Turkey).
Bishop of Edessa from 411 or 412 to 435, a strict reformer and an ally of Cyril of Alexandria.
Wrote in Syriac.
Places lived
- 411 to 436Edessa (now Şanlıurfa, Turkey)bishop
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Rules for Monks and ClergyShort rules for monks, and for priests and the sons and daughters of the covenant.3,469 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not sure
- P. Roche, 'Rabbula', New Catholic Encyclopedia (https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rabbula): born at Qenneshrin, near Aleppo, about 350; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbula gives no year of birth
- Place of birth probable
- Syriac Life of Rabbula; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbula; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668226
- Died sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbula : August 435 or 436; Chronicle of Edessa
- Place of death sure
- Chronicle of Edessa; Syriac Life of Rabbula; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658457
- Edessa, years sure
- Chronicle of Edessa: bishop from 411-412
- Edessa, place sure
- Chronicle of Edessa; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658457