Ecclesiastical Chronicle, Volume 3 (1877) - Page 16

[Jerusalem]. And Kamjesus and his host were seized and affixed to the cross as spies. The Patriarch of Antioch, when he heard that Achadabues was in Jerusalem, wrote a letter to the bishops of those regions that they should lay hands upon him and send him to the East. And they did so and sent him to Seleucia.

From that time on, the Western bishops permitted the Eastern bishops that when their head died, they themselves should lay hands on the one who was to be elected, and they should not be burdened to go to Antioch. They also wrote a systaticon letter of communion/appointment in this sense, that he should be called the Great Metropolitan of the East, like a Catholicos and even like a Patriarch. Even if these things were not pleasing to the Patriarch of Antioch.

And when Achadabues had served for fifteen years, he passed away to the Lord and was buried in the church of Seleucia.

9. After Achadabues: Schahlupha.

This man was from Kashkar. And when Achadabues died, the bishops gathered.

Footnote 1: Assemanus recounts this letter in Bibliotheca Orientalis, t. III, part I, 51 ff., and holds it to be supposititious. This question seems worthy of new examination.

to Jerusalem, while Kamjesus and his host were seized and fixed to the cross as spies. However, the Patriarch of Antioch, when he heard that Achadabues was in Jerusalem, gave letters to the bishops of that region, asking that they lay hands on him and send him to the East. And they did so and sent him to Seleucia.

From then on, the Western bishops permitted the Eastern bishops that, when their prelate died, they should consecrate their elected one themselves, without him having to go to Antioch, and they wrote a systaticon regarding this matter to this effect, so that the great Metropolitan of the East might be proclaimed as Catholicos, indeed even as Patriarch; although these things did not please the Antiochene Patriarch in the least.

Achadabues, having fulfilled his office for fifteen years, migrated to the Lord and was buried in the church of Seleucia.

9. After Achadabues: SCHAHLUPHA.

This man was from Kashkar. But when Achadabues died, the bishops gathered.

Footnote 2: Amr agrees with Barhebraeus up to this point (cf. Bibliotheca Orientalis, II, 397), but differs from him when he adds that Achadabues died in the year of Christ 220; Assemanus, Bibliotheca Orientalis, III, 612, maintains that he died in the twentieth year of his episcopacy, which is Christ 159. Guriel reports that he sat for 50 years and that the see was vacant for 10 years after his death.