Aba I (or with his Syriac honorific Mar Aba I) or Mar Abba the Great was the Patriarch of the Church of the East at Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 540 to 552. He introduced to the church the anaphoras of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius beside the more ancient liturgical rite of Addai and Mari.
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birth place
Mesopotamia, Hala
death date
0552-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
death place
Azerbaijan
major shrine
Seminary of Mar Abba the Great, United States
title
Catholicos Patriarch
venerated in
Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Catholic Church
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