John of Choziba

Saint John of Choziba, originally known as John of Thebes, was a monk who was born in Egypt around the year 440–450 CE. He abandoned monophysitism around 480 and moved to Wadi Qelt, a wadi in the Judaean Desert, where he reorganized the existing lavra into a monastery known as the monastery of Choziba.[1] In 516, he became Bishop of Caesarea, but soon resigned and returned to the monastery of Choziba, where he died between 520 and 530.[2]

The monastery in Wadi Qelt

He has been canonised as Saint John of Choziba.[3]

References
  1. Pringle, Denys (1993). The Churches of the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. p. 1:183. ISBN 9780521390361. Retrieved 21 Feb 2022.
  2. Sharon, Moshe (2004), Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestina, D-F, vol. 3, Brill, p. 71, ISBN 9789004131972
  3. Andrew Jotischky (2013), Encyclopedia of Monasticism, p. 675, ISBN 978-1136787164
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