Iohannes Damascenus

Monastic · Doctor · 675–749 · Syria, Palestine

Eventa vitae

  1. Educated — 690

    Educated by a Sicilian monk named Cosmas; received Christian theological and classical Greek education while family held senior position in Umayyad fiscal administration.

  2. Tonsured — 725

    Resigned his civil post in Damascus and entered monastery of Mar Saba in Judean desert; ordained priest by Patriarch of Jerusalem.

  3. Wrote — 726

    Wrote Three Treatises Against the Iconoclasts — defending icon veneration when Byzantine bishops could not.

  4. Died — 749

    Died at Mar Saba monastery; vindicated posthumously at Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicaea II, 787).

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Relationships (3)
Relationship ego graph (1-hop) for Iohannes Damascenus Student of Maximus the Confessor Student of Basil the Great Student of Gregory of Nazianzus Student of Maximus Confessor Maximus Confessor Student of Basilius Magnus Basilius Magnus Student of Gregorius Nazianzenus Gregorius Nazianzenus Iohannes Damascenus