Summary
Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan (also Shemon XVI Yohannan) was Patriarch of the Shem'on line (Qodshanis) of the Church of the East, from 1780. In 1804, he became the sole Patriarch among traditionalist Christians of the East Syriac Rite, because the rival Patriarch Eliya XII (1778-1804) of the Eliya line died without successor. Shimun XVI remained patriarch until his death in 1820.[1][2][3]
Shimun XVI Yohannan | |
|---|---|
| His Holiness | |
| Church | Church of the East (modern Assyrian Church of the East) |
| Diocese | Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis |
| See | Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon |
| Installed | 1780 (Patriarch of the Shem'on line) 1804 (Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East) |
| Term ended | 1820 |
| Predecessor | Shimun XV Maqdassi Mikhail as Patriarch of the Shem'on line Eliya XII as Patriarch of the Church of the East (d. 1804) |
| Successor | Shimun XVII Abraham |
| Orders | |
| Rank | Catholicos-Patriarch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Died | 1820 Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire |
| Nationality | Assyrian (Ottoman) |
| Denomination | Eastern Christian, Church of the East |
| Residence | Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire |
Biography edit
Until 1804, there were two rival patriarchal lines among traditionalist Christians of the Church of the East, senior Eliya line in Alqosh and junior Shemon line in Qochanis. The last patriarch of the senior line, Eliya XII, died in 1804 and was buried in the ancient Rabban Hormizd Monastery.[4] His branch decided not to elect a new patriarch, thus ending that line, and eventually enabling the remaining patriarch Shimun XVI of the junior line to become the sole primate of the entire traditionalist community (modern Assyrian Church of the East).[5][6][7][8][9]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Murre van den Berg 1999a, p. 257.
- ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 316-319, 356.
- ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 120, 175.
- ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 30, 263-264.
- ^ Spuler 1961, p. 165.
- ^ Ebied 1972, p. 511.
- ^ Murre van den Berg 1999b, p. 35.
- ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 120.
- ^ Hage 2007, p. 400.
Sources edit
- Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192.
- Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris. ISBN 9781845111151.
- Benjamin, Daniel D. (2008). The Patriarchs of the Church of the East. Piscataway: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781463211059.
- Burleson, Samuel; Rompay, Lucas van (2011). "List of Patriarchs of the Main Syriac Churches in the Middle East". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 481–491.
- Coakley, James F. (1999). "The Patriarchal List of the Church of the East". After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. pp. 65–84. ISBN 9789042907355.
- Coakley, James F. (2001). "Mar Elia Aboona and the History of the East Syrian Patriarchate". Oriens Christianus. 85: 119–138. ISBN 9783447042871.
- Ebied, Rifaat (1972). "Some Syriac Manuscripts from the Collection of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge". Symposium Syriacum, 1972. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum. pp. 509–539.
- Hage, Wolfgang (2007). Das Orientalische Christentum. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. ISBN 9783170176683.
- Murre van den Berg, Heleen H. L. (1999a). "The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2 (2): 235–264. doi:10.31826/hug-2010-020119. S2CID 212688640.
- Murre van den Berg, Heleen H. L. (1999b). From a Spoken to a Written Language: The Introduction and Development of Literary Urmia Aramaic in the Nineteenth Century. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. ISBN 9789062589814.
- Spuler, Bertold (1961). "Die nestorianische Kirche". Religionsgeschichte des Orients in der Zeit der Weltreligionen. Leiden: Brill. pp. 120–169. ISBN 9789004293816.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
- Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.
- Wilmshurst, David (2019). "The Patriarchs of the Church of the East". The Syriac World. London: Routledge. pp. 799–805. ISBN 9781138899018.
External links edit
- Mar Shimun Patriarchal Timeline
- Official site of the Assyrian Church of the East