Athanasius Safar
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Athanasius Safar
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Athanasius Safar of Mardin was the Syriac Catholic bishop of Mardin. He completed the first edition of the Syriac Breviary in 1696. Safar was born into a Syriac Orthodox family in Mardin in 1638. He converted to Catholicism in 1679 and was ordained bishop of Mardin on 11 March 1685 in Aleppo. He carried out missions in Persia and later in Paris, for François Piquet, the French consul in Aleppo. In 1684, he left Isfahan, traveling via Diyarbekir and Aleppo to Alexandretta, arriving in Marseille i
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Syriac Catholic bishop
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