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Aba I

Patriarch of the Church of the East at Seleucia-Ctesiphon

  • Dated 6th century CE – 552 CE
  • Recognised as Saint
  • Also called Mar Abba I the Great, Mar Aba I, Mar Abba the Great

Overview

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Aba I Patriarch of the Church of the East at Seleucia-Ctesiphon
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