Metropolitan Yaqub Mirijan
(d. 1804)
Metropolitan Yaqub Mirijan was born at the village Arnas. He became a monk in a monastery in his native country and was ordained a priest. About 1778, he was ordained a bishop and headed the diocese of Midyat. He died in 1804. I have read eleven odes composed by him in the three meters (the five, seven and dodecasyllabic meters) on repentance, on the vicissitudes of his time and on the two righteous men Job and Joseph. These odes are partly good and partly poor.653