# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ephrem-the-syrian
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:51.885Z

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description: "A 4th-century deacon who turned theology into verse and built an all-women choir tradition that shaped Eastern Christianity for a millennium. His hymns were so widely loved that centuries of writers forged works under his name just to borrow the authority."
tagline: "Syriac saint, theologian and writer (c. 306 – 373)"
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birthDate: "306"
deathDate: "0373-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 306 in Nisibis, Ephrem served as a deacon and is credited with founding the School of Nisibis, which became a center of learning for the Church of the East. He later lived in Edessa, where he wrote hymns, poems, sermons in verse, and prose exegesis — practical theology for a church navigating troubled times. His innovation of madrāšê (teaching hymns) performed by all-women choirs gave rise to the Syriac tradition of "deaconess" choir members. He died in 373, but his popularity spawned hundreds of pseudepigraphal works written in his name for centuries after. The Catholic Church named him a Doctor of the Church in 1920, and he remains venerated as the most significant father of the Syriac-speaking church tradition.