Rabban Hormizd

Mar Hormizd
Image of Mar Hormizd Rabban at Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Church, Angamaly
Rabban
Born6th or early 7th century
Beth Lapat, Persia
Diedmid 7th century
Rabban Hormizd Monastery, modern day Iraq
Venerated inAssyrian Church of the East,
Ancient Church of the East,
Chaldean Catholic Church,
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church[1]
Feast2nd Sunday after Easter

Rabban Mar Hormizd (Classical Syriac: ܕܪܒܢ ܗܘܪܡܙܕ) was a monk who lived in the seventh century in modern northern Iraq. Rabban is the Syriac term for monk. "Rabban" is also the Aramaic word for "teacher".[2] He founded the Rabban Hormizd Monastery in Alqosh, named after him, which has served in the past as the patriarchate of the Church of the East.

In the Church of the East and its descendant branches, Rabban Hormizd is commemorated on the second Sunday after Easter.[3]

  1. ^ Fr. Varghese Pathikulangara CMI (2011). Divine Praises in Aramaic Tradition (PDF). Kottayam: Denha Services. p. 48. ISBN 978-93-81207-02-4.
  2. ^ "New Testament Aramaic". Studylight.org. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  3. ^ Fr. Noel Gorgis. "Memorial of Rabban Hormizd". Kaldaya.net. Retrieved 2009-11-15.