Mar Denha I

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Mar Denha, also Mar Denha I was Patriarch of the Church of the East (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Nestorian church) from 1266 until his death in 1281, when he was replaced by Mar Yaballaha III. He had succeeded Mar Makkikha II.

Mar Denha I was the Patriarch in charge when Rabban Bar Sauma arrived in Persia. Mar Denha had his seat in Baghdad at that time, and requested Rabban Bar Sauma to visit the court of Abaqa in order to obtain confirmation letters for his ordination as Patriarch.

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James A. Montgomery, History of Yaballaha III, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1927).
E. A. Wallis Budge, The Monks of Kublai Khan, (London: Religious Tract Society, 1928).
Paul Bedjan, Histoire de Mar Jab-Alaha, Patriarche, (1888, 2nd ed 1995; reprint Gorgias, 2007). Syriac text on which the translations of Montgomery and Budge are based.
Gregory Barhebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum, ed. J. B. Abbeloos and T. J. Lamy, (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1877), 3: II, cols.451ff.