Abraham, Monastery of - ܒܝܬ ܐܒܪܗܡ

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This monastery, mentioned in Joh. Eph., EH 1.15 as a place of imprisonment for miaphysite clerics, is probably identical with the monastery founded by Abraham, future archbishop of Ephesus, in the first half of the sixth century. It was located in Constantinople just outside the Theodosian walls at the Golden Gate.3

Names

  • ܒܝܬ ܐܒܪܗܡ
  • Abraham, Monastery of
  • ܒܝܬ ܐܒܪܗܡ2
  • Monastery of the Abrahamites1
  • Monastère des Abramites3
  • Μονὴ τῶν Ἀβραμιτῶν3

Place Type

monastery

Descriptions

This monastery, mentioned in Joh. Eph., EH 1.15 as a place of imprisonment for miaphysite clerics, is probably identical with the monastery founded by Abraham, future archbishop of Ephesus, in the first half of the sixth century. It was located in Constantinople just outside the Theodosian walls at the Golden Gate.3
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  • 1 Julia Hillner, Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: CUP, 2015)., p: 338.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 15; 55, chapter: 3.1.15; 3.2.2.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 p: 8., p: 8.

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