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Ebbo, archbishop of Rheims, was the son of a Saxon serf, and was horn about 775, or, according to other accounts, about 78G. While a boy he became known to the young king Louis, the son ( f Charle- magne, who sent him to a convent school, and had him educated for the ministry. As he belonged to a serf family, and could not receive orders, Louis set him free, after which he was ordained. After the acces- sion cf Louis to the throne, Eblio's influence rapidly rose, and in 817 the king secured his election as arch- bishop of Rheims. Soon after, in 822, he placed liim- self at the head of a mission to the Danes. His plan highlv pleased both the king and the Pope. The Da- nish king Ilarald allowed him to preach Christianity, but refused to become a Christian himself. Manj' Danes were baptized; but, owing to sonic threaten- ing movements against Harald, Ebbo in 823 returned to the em])eror, andat the Diet of Com]>iegne made a full report fui his mission. Soon after he undertook a second missionary visit to Denmark, at which he dis-
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posed the king favorably towards Christhinity. In 820, ths king, with liis wife, his oldest son, his nephew, and a suite of 400 men, came to the emperor's court at Mayence and was baptized. The mission in Den- mark was now placed under Ansgar, and Ebbo re- turned to his arclibishopric. He took an active part in the affairs of the state, and in the war of the sons of Louis against their father, he, with most of the bish- ops, took side with the sons. He presided at the as- sembly of bishops which in 833 compelled Louis to do public penance, as such an act, according to the laws of the Church, made him unfit to bear arms. But ■when, in 834, Louis regained his power, Ebbo was ar- rested and kept a prisoner in tiie convent of Fulda. He was brought before the Diet of Diedenhofen in 835, and confessed himself guilty of offences which, in the opinion of the judges, made him unfit for any fur- ther administration of his office. He was again con- fined in the convent of Fulda, where he remained un- til the death of Louis in 810. He then prevailed upon Lothaire, who made an attempt to possess himself of the whole empire of his father, to reinstate him as archbishop of lilieims (Dec. (J, 840). In May, 841, king Charles, the brother of Lothaire, again expelled him ; and as, at the conclusion of peace, Lothaire did not take a special interest in Ebbo, he lost his archbishop- ric forever. In the last j'ears of his life, king Louis of Germany appointed him, with permission of the Pope, administrator of the diocese of Hildesheim. He died March 20th, 851. Ebbo compiled an Indiadum Ebbonis cle mbiistrls Remensis ecclesice, an instruction for the clergy of his diocese as to their mode of life, and an Apologia Archiepiscopi Remensis cum ejusdcm ad genU'S septentrionales legatione. 'Ihey are of small size and no value. — Herzog, Real-Eiicyklop. six, 447 ; "Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. iii, 349. (A. J. S.)
E'bed (Heb. Id. ^2", servant [q. v.], i. e. of God; conip. Abdu), the name of two men.
1. (Many MSS., and the Syr. and Aral). Versions, liave I^V, Eber; Sept. 'Iw/3/j\ ; Alexand. MS. A/365 ; Vulg. Ebed and Obed.) The father of Gaal (q. v.), ■who headed the insurgents at Shechem against Abim- elech, tyrant judgB of the Israelites (Judg. ix, 26-35). B.C. ante 1321. '
2. (Sept. 12/3(5 V. r. Q/3/;)', Vulgate Abed.) Son of Jonathan, and family-head of the lineage of Adin ; he returned with 50 males from the captivity (Ezra viii, G). B.C. 450.
Ebed-jesu, sumamed Baii-Bricha {Son of the Blessed), an eminent Nestorian theologian, was born in ^lesopotamia about the middle of the 13th centurj'. After having been for five years bishop of Sigara, in Arabia, he was made Nestorian bishop of Soba or Nisi- be in 1290. Where Ebed-Jesu pursued his studies is not known, but the works which he has left us show that he was fluent in the Arabic, well acquainted with the Greek, and his dogmatical writings especiall}' dis- play an extensive knowledge with philosophy and di- alectics. He seems also to have been familiar with the works of the great Jacobite B:ir-Hel)ranis. His works, which are more than twent)', are mostly of a theological character ; on the interpretation of the O. and N. T., on the Logos, sacraments of the Church, and a treatise on tlie truth of the Faith (pub. })y A. Mai in Syriac and Lat., Script. Vet. x, 317 : — Epitome or Collection nfth". Canons of Councils (also pulilished by Mai) : — Canones xxv (ipistolici oli Ecclesim ordination- em : — Prima christiance doctrinte Dijasi) (a Description of the Countries that permitted the preaching of the Apostles) :— 23 Canons of the Apostles, edited by St. Clement : — 5 other Canons of the Apostles, published also by St. Clement: — The Paradise Eden, containing 50 poems, divided into two parts, called Henoch and Elias, beginning with the Trinit}', and ending with the Resurrection. (Comp. Assemani, Bibl. Or. iii, 3, p. 325 sq.) Of literary importance is his catalogue of 200 Syr-