Mar Jacob

Mar Jacob was bishop of Nisibis in Mesopotamia around 350. He founded the School of Nisibis after the model of the school of Diodore of Tarsus in Antioch.

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Also under his auspices, St. Awgin founded the first monastery of Mesopotamia that followed the new cenobitic model from Egypt was set up on Mt. Izla above the city.

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Bishop: A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority....

Nisibis: Nisibis (Nusaybin, province Mardin, south-eastern Turkey) is the ancient Mesopotamian city, which Alexander's successors refounded as Antiochia Mygdonia and is mentioned for the first time in Polybius' description of the march of Antiochus against the Molon (Polybius, V, 51)....

Mesopotamia: :For other uses see Mesopotamia (disambiguation)....

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