maphrian
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English
Etymology
From Classical Syriac ܡܲܦ̮ܪܝܵܢܵܐ (map̄ryānā, “one who causes to be abundant”).
Noun
maphrian
- (Christianity, West Syriac) catholicos, high-ranking bishop
- 2014, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, “Civitas Thauris. The Significance of Tabriz in the Spiritual Frameworks of Christian Merchants and Ecclesiastics in the 13th and 14th Centuries”, in Judith Pfeiffer, editor, Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th–15th Century Tabriz, page 286:
- Tabriz was not subordinated directly to the Patriarchate with the nominal see in Antioch in Syria, but to the so-called Maphrian, who administered the entire East of the West-Syrian sphere from Mesopotamia to Central Asia.