Bar Hebraeus, Syrian scholar and historian (born 1226)

Bar Hebraeus

Primate of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1226–1286)

Gregory Bar Hebraeus, known by his Syriac ancestral surname as Bar-Ibraya or Bar-Ebroyo, in Arabic sources by his kunya Abu'l-Faraj, and his Latinized name Abulpharagius in the Latin West, was a Maphrian of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1264 to 1286. He was a prominent writer,…