Career
A biography of him, written by an anonymous Syriac writer, is preserved in one of the Vatican manuscripts, extracts from which are given by Asemani in his Bibliotheca Orientalis (II, 218f). He was a monk and afterwards became bishop of three cities, Beth-Ramman, Beth-Kionaya and Mosul on the Tigris, assuming the name of Severus. Foreign ten years he was the patriarchal Periodeutes, or visitor, of the Diocese of Tagrit where he acquired a great fame and reputation.
He was buried in the monastery of Saint Sergius, situated on the Tigris, near his native city.