Simeon Rabban Ata

Simeon Rabban Ata, also Simeon Rabban-ata and sometimes Simeo Rabban Ara, was a high representative of Syriac Christianity in the 13th century.[1] Among other things, he was tasked by the Mongols, such as Khans Ogodei and Guyuk, to handle Christian matters.[2] He was in charge of establishing Christian churches in the Mongol realm, and had contact with some of the Christian envoys and missionaries that passed through the area.[3] He was known to have met with André de Longjumeau and Ascelin in Tabriz in 1245, as they were on their own missions to the Mongols.[4]

He himself visited the Mongol court in 1235-1240,[5] and was an intermediary between Eastern and Western Christianity, corresponding with the Pope, such as when he transmitted a profession of faith by the Jacobite patriarch Ignatius II in 1247, and gave to André de Longjumeau a letter in which the primacy of Rome was being recognized.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Richard, "Histoire des Croisades", p.376 (English edition, p. 365)
  2. ↑ Roux 1993, p.587
  3. ↑ Jackson, p.98
  4. ↑ Richard, "Histoire des Croisades", p.376
  5. ↑ Roux 1985, p.97
  6. ↑ Jackson, p.94

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