Chronicle of Edessa

1 XLVII.
In the year 715, Abfamias the priest, son of the sister of the blessed Mar Ephraim, composed odes and discourses on the exodus of the Huns into the land of the Romans.

2 XLVIII.
In the year 720, Mar Diogenes became Bishop of Edessa, and he began to build the temple of Mar Barlaha.

XLIX.
In that same year, on the first day of the month of Ab, Mar Pachidas, Bishop of Edessa, died.

3 L.
In the year 721, Cyril became Bishop of Great Alexandria.

4 LI.
In the year 723, Rabulas received the bishopric of Edessa. He ordered the emperor, and he built the temple of Saint Stephen, which had been the House of the Sabbath of the Jews. He took it from them by his own authority and made it a church with altars.

...years, which he had ruled over the church of Mopsuestia, as the same Theodoret notes; and thus he was ordained bishop not in the year 391, as the most eminent Norisius supposed in Book 1 of the Pelagian History, Chapter 9, nor in the year 397, as Dionysius writes in his Chronicle; but in the year 394, as the same Pagius showed for the year 427, from number 9. Certainly, Theodore was still alive in the year of Christ 428, when Nestorius assumed the bishopric of Constantinople, as Theodulus testifies in Evagrius, Book 1, Chapter 2, who narrates that Nestorius, traveling to the bishopric of the Royal city, met with Theodore at Mopsuestia, and upon hearing his doctrine, strayed from the true faith. Regarding his memory and writings, consult the Acts of the Fifth Synod.

1. Abfamias. Concerning whom see above, page 169.

2. Diogenes. Dionysius refers his ordination to two years later; however, the author of our Chronicle is to be preferred entirely, as Dionysius drew his history from him.

3. Cyrillus. Dionysius places the ordination of Cyril in that same year, namely...

XLVII. In the year 715, Abfamias, the priest and son of the sister of the blessed Mar Ephraim, composed odes and discourses regarding the Huns' excursion into the Roman domain.

XLVIII. In the year 720, Mar Diogenes was made Bishop of Edessa, who began to build the temple of Mar Barlaha.

XLIX. In the same year, on the first day of the month of August, Mar Pachidas, Bishop of Edessa, passed away.

L. In the year 721, Cyril was made Bishop of Great Alexandria.

LI. In the year 723, Rabulas received the bishopric of Edessa. He, by order of the Emperor, built the temple of Saint Stephen, which had previously been the House of the Sabbath, that is, the Synagogue of the Jews.

LII.

...the year of the Greeks 721, of Christ 410, but Socrates, Book 7, Chapter 7, disagrees with both, noting the death of Theophilus on the Ides of October in the consulship of Honorius IX and Theodosius V, that is, in the year of Christ 412, and the inauguration of Saint Cyril on the third day thereafter.

4. Rabulas. Dionysius reports both the death of Diogenes and the ordination of Rabulas in the same year. Furthermore, under Rabulas, Saint Alexius the Roman flourished, whom the Syrians call Mar Riscia Prince/Leader and Gabra D-Allaha Man of God, that is, the holy prince and man of God, as I read noted in the title of his Life in a very ancient codex of the Scetis Syrian monastery, written by Thomas, deacon of Edessa, in the monastery of Guba Baraia on the 29th of July, in the year of the Greeks 895, of Christ 584, which could not be extracted at any price. The author of that Life is called the anonymous sacristan of the Church of Edessa, both in the aforementioned codex and in the Arabic Vatican manuscript LV, page 53, where another Life of the same Saint Alexius is also read, described from Latin copies, in which it is narrated that the holy man departed for heaven not at Edessa, as is wrongly narrated in the previous Arabic Life translated from the Syriac, but at Rome, as indeed happened.