Raban Gamliel VI

Gamaliel VI. was the last Jewish Patriarch of 400-415.

The dismissal of the last Jewish patriarch Gamaliel VI. , On October 17, 415 is mentioned in the 22 Edict of the eighth chapter of the 16th book of the Theodosian Code.

The reasons for his dismissal were manifold. So the Patriarch had already lost his rights and privileges by Honorius. Furthermore, the Patriarch did not stop a ban that forbade the construction of new synagogues. And still was Gamaliel VI. served as chief judge and as a final court of appeal in disputes between Jews and Christians. In 426, the Patriarch control post Excessum patriarchorum still was rededicated as an imperial tax. The 29th edict from the same chapter of the above book mentions only that the patriarch had died without a successor is named in this edict. Theodosius II ended the Jewish patriarchate 429

Gamaliel VI. was in addition to his position as a religious leader and highest judicial authority also a gifted physician. Marcellus Empiricus mentioned a remedy for diseases of the spleen, which had been developed under Gamalielus Patriarcha ( De Medicamentis, liber 21).