Cyrus I (died 396) was the

bishop of Edessa Early bishops The following list is based on the records of the '' Chronicle of Edessa'' (to ''c''.540) and the ''Chronicle of Zuqnin''. Jacobite (Syriac) bishops These bishops belonged to the Syriac Orthodox Church , native_name_lang ...

. He succeeded Eulogius, who died on Good Friday 387 (year 698 of the

Seleucid era The Seleucid era ("SE") or (literally "year of the Greeks" or "Greek year"), sometimes denoted "AG," was a system of numbering years in use by the Seleucid Empire and other countries among the ancient Hellenistic civilizations. It is sometimes ...

)., pp. 28–45, at 83. According to the '' Chronicle of Edessa'', on 22 August 394 (705) Cyrus moved the

relics In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tang ...

(bones) of

Thomas the Apostle Thomas the Apostle ( arc, 𐡀𐡌𐡅𐡕𐡌, hbo, תוֹמא הקדוש or תוֹמָא שליחא (''Toma HaKadosh'' "Thomas the Holy" or ''Toma Shlikha'' "Thomas the Messenger/Apostle" in Hebrew-Aramaic), syc, ܬܐܘܡܐ, , meaning "twi ...

from a

martyrium A martyrium (Latin) or martyrion (Greek), plural ''martyria'', sometimes anglicized martyry (pl. martyries), is a church or shrine built over the tomb of a Christian martyr. It is associated with a specific architectural form, centered on a cent ...

outside the city walls to a church in the southwest corner of the city. Cyrus died on 22 July 396 (707). The story of ''

Euphemia and the Goth ''Euphemia and the Goth'' is a romance text of Syriac literature. It is set at Edessa in Mesopotamia in 396 AD but the story appears to have been written in the fifth century AD. The text is known to have survived in two Syriac manuscripts (the ...

'' is set during the pontificate of Cyrus., p. 58.

References

{{reflist 396 deaths 4th-century Mesopotamian bishops Bishops of Edessa