Isaac of Nineveh (Arabic: إسحاق النينوي Ishak an-Naynuwī Greek: Ισαάκ της Νινευή died c. 700) also remembered as Isaac the Assyrian Abba Isaac and Isaac Syrus was a 7th-century Assyrian bishop and theologian best remembered for his written work. He is also regarded as a saint in the Church of the East the Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox Church and among the Oriental Orthodox Churches making him the last saint chronologically to be recognised by every apostolic Church.
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birth place
Eastern Arabia
death place
Nineveh
individualised GND number
10251044X
major shrine
Iraq, Monastery_of_Shabar
title
Mar Isaac the Syrian
venerated in
Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, Assyrian Church of the East, Eastern Catholic Churches, Catholic Church
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