# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-of-ephesus
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:04:22.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-of-ephesus"
name: "John of Ephesus"
slug: "john-of-ephesus"
description: "John of Ephesus was a leader of the early Syriac Orthodox Church in the sixth century and one of the earliest and the most important historians to write in Syriac. John was a bishop, historian, and writer. He provides one of the only first-hand accounts of the Plague of Justinian. He was also alive in what has been called the worst year in history, 536."
tagline: "6th-century Byzantine historian"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "507"
deathDate: "580"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.78070933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Іоанн Ефеський"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Йоан Ефески"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Johano de Efezo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Հովհան Եփեսացի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ioannes Ephesius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_z_Efezu"
    title: "Jan z Efezu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ján z Efezu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Јован Ефески"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Efesli İoannes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718607"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump