Dionysius of Tel Mahre

Dionysius Of Tel Mahre

Dionysius I of Tel Mahre (818–45) was one of the most celebrated ninth-century patriarchs of the Syrian Orthodox Church. He was the author of the Annals, an important world history, now lost, which was used as a source by the twelfth-century Jacobite historian Michael the Syrian. He was credited by Joseph Simon Assemani with the authorship of the Zuqnin Chronicle, an anonymous eighth-century Syriac history, but this attribution is now known to have been mistaken.

Dionysius is commonly known as Dionysius of Tel Mahre, after the village in Syria where he was born. In older texts his name is sometimes Latinised as Dionysius Telmaharensis.