Jacob Baradaeus

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 431 words | Copyright

Jacob Baradaeus (c.500–78), after whom the name ‘Jacobite’ was given to the Syrian Orthodox Church. He spent 15 years at Constantinople. When the Monophysite king of the Ghassanids asked for a bishop c.542, Jacob was secretly consecrated Bp. of Edessa; he spent the rest of his life clandestinely ordaining clergy and helping to establish a separate hierarchy. Feast day in the Syrian Orthodox Church, 31 July.

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