# Rabban Hormizd

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Persian saint

"Saint Hormizd" redirects here. For the 5th-century Persian martyr, see [Hormizd the Martyr](/source/Hormizd_the_Martyr). For the 6th-century pope, see [Pope Hormisdas](/source/Pope_Hormisdas).

Mar Hormizd Image of Mar Hormizd Rabban at Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Angamaly Rabban Born 6th or early 7th century Beth Lapat, Persia Died mid 7th century Rabban Hormizd Monastery, modern day Iraq Venerated in Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church[1] Feast 2nd Sunday after Easter

**Rabban Mar Hormizd** ([Classical Syriac](/source/Classical_Syriac_language): ܕܪܒܢ ܗܘܪܡܙܕ) was a monk who lived in the seventh century in modern northern [Iraq](/source/Iraq). *Rabban* is the [Syriac](/source/Syriac_language) term for *monk*. "Rabban" is also the Aramaic word for "teacher".[2] He founded the [Rabban Hormizd Monastery](/source/Rabban_Hormizd_Monastery) in [Alqosh](/source/Alqosh), named after him, which has served in the past as the patriarchate of the [Church of the East](/source/Church_of_the_East).

In the Church of the East and its descendant branches, Rabban Hormizd is commemorated on the second Sunday after [Easter](/source/Easter).[3]

## Life

According to *The histories of Rabban Hormizd the Persian and Rabban Bar-Idta*, a text written by his disciple Simon[4] before the 12th century,[5] Hormizd was born at the end of the sixth or beginning the seventh century at [Beth Lapat](/source/Beth_Lapat) from a rich or noble family, and at the age of eighteen he started to travel towards [Scetes](/source/Scetes) to become a [monk](/source/Monk) there. On the way he met three monks of the Church of the East monastery of [Bar Idta](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bar_Idta&action=edit&redlink=1) who urged him to become an inmate of their monastery, and he did so. He lived a hard, stern life. Hormizd lived in and near the Monastery of Bar Idta for thirty-nine years and in the monastery of Abba Abraham of Risha for six or seven years.

When Hormizd was sixty-five or sixty-six, he left the monastery and passing out of the country of Marga went and settled down in the mountain of Beth 'Edhrai near the town of [Alqosh](/source/Alqosh). When he had been there some little time the people in the neighbourhood offered to build him a monastery, the present *[Rabban Hormizd Monastery](/source/Rabban_Hormizd_Monastery)*. The following part of the life of Rabban Hormizd is marked by episodes in which the he opposed the [miaphysite](/source/Miaphysite) monks of the *[Mar Mattai Monastery](/source/Mar_Mattai_Monastery)*, which housed the [Catholicate](/source/Catholicate) of the [Syriac Orthodox Church](/source/Syriac_Orthodox_Church) in [Persia](/source/Persia).

## Gallery

		- Tomb of Mar Hormizd in [Rabban Hormizd Monastery](/source/Rabban_Hormizd_Monastery).

		- [Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Angamaly](/source/Mar_Hormiz_Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Church%2C_Angamaly), built by [Mar Abraham](/source/Abraham_of_Angamaly), [Metropolitan and Gate of All India](/source/Metropolitan_and_Gate_of_All_India).

		- The largest [Assyrian church](/source/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East) in Australia, *St Hurmizd Cathedral* in [Greenfield Park](/source/Greenfield_Park%2C_New_South_Wales) named after Hormizd.

		- [Rabban Hormizd Monastery](/source/Rabban_Hormizd_Monastery): is an important [monastery](/source/Monastery) of the [Chaldean Catholic Church](/source/Chaldean_Catholic_Church) and the [Church of the East](/source/Church_of_the_East) in [Alqosh](/source/Alqosh), [Iraq](/source/Iraq).[6]

		- Mar Hormizd Rabban as depicted in *[The Book of Protection](/source/The_Book_of_Protection)*.

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Fr. Varghese Pathikulangara CMI (2011). [*Divine Praises in Aramaic Tradition*](http://www.nasranifoundation.org/books/pdf/DivinePraisesinAramaicTradition.pdf) (PDF). Kottayam: Denha Services. p. 48. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-93-81207-02-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-93-81207-02-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["New Testament Aramaic"](http://www.studylight.org/lexicons/aramaic/awview.cgi?n=2721). *Studylight.org*. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Fr. Noel Gorgis. ["Memorial of Rabban Hormizd"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080424153625/http://www.kaldaya.net/2007/4_DailyNews_April2007/Apr19_07_E1_FrNoel_MEMOREL_RABBANHORMIZD.html). Kaldaya.net. Archived from the original on April 24, 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-15.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Leroy, Jules; Collin, Peter (2004). [*Monks and Monasteries of the Near East*](https://books.google.com/books?id=rzDqR7xjKoUC&pg=PA165). pp. 166–167. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-59333-276-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59333-276-1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Budge_5-0)** [Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis](/source/E._A._Wallis_Budge), ed. (1902). [*The histories of Rabban Hormizd the Persian and rabban Bar-Idta*](https://archive.org/details/historiesrabban00budggoog). London.{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Leroy, Jules; Collin, Peter (2004). [*Monks and Monasteries of the Near East*](https://books.google.com/books?id=rzDqR7xjKoUC&pg=PA165). pp. 166–167. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-59333-276-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59333-276-1).

## External links

- [Memorial of Rabban Hormizd - Kaldaya.net](https://web.archive.org/web/20080424153625/http://www.kaldaya.net/2007/4_DailyNews_April2007/Apr19_07_E1_FrNoel_MEMOREL_RABBANHORMIZD.html)

- [E. A. Wallis Budge](/source/E._A._Wallis_Budge), *The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ*, [I, The Syriac texts](https://archive.org/stream/Budge1902HistoriesOfRabbanHormizdVol.1/Budge%201902_Histories%20of%20Rabban%20Hormizd%2C%20vol.%201#page/n2/mode/1up), London 1902

- [E. A. Wallis Budge](/source/E._A._Wallis_Budge), *The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ*, [II/1, English translations](https://archive.org/stream/historiesrabban00budggoog#page/n11/mode/1up), London 1902

- [E. A. Wallis Budge](/source/E._A._Wallis_Budge), *The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ*, [II/2, The metrical life of rabban Hôrmîzd by Mâr Sergius of Âdhôrbâîjân. English translations](https://archive.org/stream/historiesrabban01budggoog#page/n13/mode/1up), London 1902

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