Zoora

Saint

Zoora
ChurchSyriac Orthodox Church
Personal details
Born6th century
Amida, modern-day Diyarbakır
Denominationnon-Chalcedonian Christianity
Sainthood
Feast day8 October
Venerated inOriental Orthodox Church

Zoora (Syriac: ܙܥܘܪܐ, Zʿura; Greek Ζωόρας, Zooras), also called Z'ura the Stylite, was a Syrian monk and stylite in the Eastern Roman Empire in the 530s. He was a prominent Miaphysite theologian and a close associate of Severus of Antioch, and is highly venerated within the Syriac Orthodox Church tradition.