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Jacob Baradaeus and the Miaphysite church network
c. c. 500 – 578
Place: edessa
37.150, 38.782 · On the map
Reported by John of Ephesus (insider, Miaphysite).
At the request of the Ghassanid al-Harith, Empress Theodora arranged in 542 for Jacob to be consecrated bishop of Edessa, and Theodore as bishop for the Arabs. Jacob travelled widely ordaining clergy and built the separate Miaphysite ('Jacobite') hierarchy that served Syria and Christian Arab tribes.
People named here
- Jacob Baradaeus
- Theodora
- al-Harith ibn Jabala
- Theodore (bishop of the Arabs)
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Ghassanids: Christian Arab kings for Byzantium (al-Jabiya)
Al-Harith ibn Jabala asked for Jacob's consecration (542).
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Sources
- Wikipedia: Jacob Baradaeus
Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Greg Fisher, Between Empires: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in Late Antiquity (2011)
Oxford University Press. Accessed 2026-11-11.