ABSTRACT
Missionary bishop and organizer of Monophysite churches. The name of Jacob Baradaeus ("the ragged") was applied in the eighth century to the non-Chalcedonian, "Monophysite," churches in Asia Minor, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine—the "Jacobites." The son of a priest of Tella, Syria, Jacob became a monk at the monastery of Pesilto in the region of Nisibis. With Sargis, another monk of his house, he went in 527 to Constantinople as an ambassador for the interests of the non-Chalcedonians in Syria. The empress Theodora was noted for her sympathy to the non-Chalcedonian party.
