A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

46. JACOBITA. More than one dignitary of the Jacobite sect or church bore this name. One was created bishop of Irta in A. D. 551. Another, patriarch of the Jacobites, died A. D. 665. (Assemann. Bibl. Orient. vol, i. p. 167; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 398.)