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Saint Mari

1st-century Syriac missionary and apostle, Christian saint, one of the Seventy Disciples and founder of the Church of the East

  • Dated until 2nd century CE
  • Recognised as Saint
  • Also called Mari, Mar Mari, Mares

Overview

1st-century Syriac missionary and apostle, Christian saint, one of the Seventy Disciples and founder of the Church of the EastWikidata record description. Read Mari of Edessa in the Wikipedia reader.

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Belonged to

Offices held 1

  1. Dates unrecorded Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East

Teachers and students

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

Studied under 2

Saint Mari 1st-century Syriac missionary and apostle, Christian saint, one of the Seventy Disciples and founder of the Church of the East

What the records tie them to

Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.

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