Event Factoid

https://spear-prosop.org/841-6
Date: Sometime between 0542-04-01 and 0543-03-31Event Factoid: During the sixteenth year of the reign of Justinian ( In 542/43 This regularized date was calculated by the SPEAR editor from a non-calendrical dating system such as regnal years, etc. ), at the request of Hereth Bar Gabala, Theodora ordered the ordination of non-Chalcedonian bishops: Jacob Baradaeus as bishop of Edessa and Theodore of Hirtha as bishop of Hirtha of the Saracens.

Sources:

  • E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints III,Patrologia Orientalis 29.2 (1925), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient19pariuoft#page/n163/mode/2up, p: 153-54.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to cite:

Daniel L. Schwartz, https://spear-prosop.org/841-6, in The Lives of the Eastern Saints: A SPEAR Prosopography, edited by Daniel L. Schwartz, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, 2025-07-01.