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Mar, n.2|mɑː(r)|
[Aramaic.]
An honorific title for saints and higher clergy, chiefly in the Nestorian and Jacobite churches.
1694M. Geddes tr. Hist. Church of Malabar 11 Their Bishop at that time..was one Mar Joseph, who..had been sent thither by Mar Audixa, Patriarch of Babylon. 1864G. B. Howard Christians of St. Thomas iv. 154 In the year 1856 a certain Mar Athanasius Stephanos made his appearance,..claiming to be the rightful Metropolitan of the Christians of St. Thomas. 1892G. M. Rae Syrian Church in India xix. 304 The first native of Malabar that ever received consecration..was Mar Athanasius Matthew. Ibid. 309 The pretensions of Mar Koorilos were finally disposed of; Mar Dionysius resigned his dignity..; Mar Athanasius was by royal proclamation declared metropolitan. 1933Downside Rev. LI. 399 Fr Hugh Conolly was editing a number of Texts and Studies consisting of a translation of certain Syriac liturgical homilies of Mar Narsai, a fifth century Nestorian writer. 1956N. Zernov Christian East ix. 103 In 1665 a Monophysite bishop, Mar Gregorius, arrived in South India from Palestine. Ibid. 105 The Bishops Mar Mathew Athanasius and Mar Thomas Athanasius formed a separate Church, now known under the name of the Mar Thoma Church. 1964P. F. Anson Bishops at Large 27 They have given themselves impressive ecclesiastical titles,..Hierarch, Mar, Metropolitan..and so on. |