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Mar Aba in Ādurbādagān. Leading a Church from Exile through the Iranian Landscape

    Vittorio Berti

Iranianate and Syriac Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Period, pp. 83-104, 2021/12/21

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Abstract

The contribution, using historical-biographical sources, synodal acts and Christian and Zoroastrian canonical collections, aims to investigate the causes and consequences of the exile in Ādurbādagān of the catholicos of the Church of Persia, Mar Aba, which took place in 541 CE following a complex criminal proceeding brought against him by the highest offices of Zoroastrian Sasanian jurisprudence. We will then try to reconstruct the political-rhetorical characters of his stay in exile, his relationship with the non-Christian population, his management of the Justinian Pandemic, the organi-zation of his residence and the use of his few aides as an instrument of remote government of the church. Finally, the main dossiers he took charge of during his exile will be studied, from the complicated division of Sakastān, to the reaffirmation of the prerogatives of the priestly hierarchy, to the difficult management of the political-ecclesiastical turmoil in Elam.