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Mor Sergius of Tella +546

Patriarch of Antioch, consecrated by St. Jacob Baradaeus Brief excerpt in John of Ephesus Lives of the Eastern Saints Volume II p. 487: "A period of some years therefore after the death of the blessed Severus, the blessed Sergius succeeded him in orthodoxy [line of Apostolic Succession]; who was by his birth a man of Thella, a learned and well-read man, and among men renowned and well-known and honoured, and as regards God devout and given to fasting and a Nazirite, and a keeper of vigils, and a lover of quietude, and of reading the Scriptures and the exposition of the fathers, so that he was skillful in his speech, and a man of understanding. This man therefore, having attained Ordination to the Patriarchate while in the royal city, and presided over the church, teaching and comforting and edifying and establishing everyone in the truth for three years after he had received the right hand of the high priesthood of Antioch, ended his course, and was carried from the life here to our Lord in the same royal city." RSoH