# John of Damascus

> An eighth-century monk who wrote the theological playbook for icon veneration during Islam's early expansion—and whose hymns still sound in Orthodox liturgies worldwide. His defense of images carved a permanent line in Christian practice.

*Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/john-of-damascus

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 675
- **Died:** 0749-12-04
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn in Damascus around 675 or 676, he grew into a polymath versed in law, theology, philosophy, and music—earning the byname Chrysorroas, "the golden speaker." He became a Christian monk and priest, eventually settling at Mar Saba monastery near Jerusalem. There he mounted a vigorous defense of icons that made him a defining voice in Eastern Orthodoxy, and developed perichoresis as a technical term for how Christ's natures interpenetrate and how the Trinity's persons relate. He composed hymns that survive in both Eastern Christian liturgy and western Lutheran practice. He died at Mar Saba, tradition says on 4 December 749, closing the Patristic period—the Catholic Church calls him "the last of the Greek Fathers" and honors him as Doctor of the Assumption for his writings on Mary.

## Fame
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