Saint and 37th Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
Saint
Severus the Great
Crown of Syrian
Patriarch of Antioch and all of the East
Church
Syriac Orthodox Church
Installed
16 November 512
Term ended
5 February 538
Predecessor
Flavian II of Antioch
Successor
Sergius of Tella
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Born
c. 459/465
Sozopolis, Eastern Roman Empire (modern-day Uluborlu, Isparta, Turkey)
Died
5 February 538 Xois, Eastern Roman Empire (modern-day Sakha, Egypt)
Buried
Zogag Monastery
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Roman
Denomination
Oriental Orthodoxy
Sainthood
Feast day
8 February (Coptic Church),[1] 29 September (Syriac Orthodox)[2]
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Severus the Great of Antioch (Greek: Σεβῆρος; Syriac: ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܕܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ),[3] also known as Severus of Gaza[4] or the Crown of Syrians[5] (Syriac: ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ, romanized: Tagha d'Suryoye; Arabic: تاج السوريان, romanized: Taj al-Suriyan), was the Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, from 512 until his death in 538. He is venerated as a saint in the Oriental Orthodox Church, and his feast day is 8 February.
^https://www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium/6_9.html
^Curtin, D. P. (July 2015). Jacobite Arab Synaxarium- Volume I. Dalcassian Publishing Company. ISBN 9781088061237.
^Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (17 August 2016). "Severus of Antioch". Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
^Evans (2000), p. 106
^emorales (17 May 2016). "The Biography of Patriarch Severus of Antioch (512-538) Written by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Cyriacus of Tikrit (793-817)". Atla. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
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