Audishu V Khayyath

Mar Audishu V, (Ebed-Jesu V), Georges Khayyath † (or Abdisho V, Giwargis Hayyat) (Arabic: مار جرجيس عبد يشوع الخامس خياط) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1894–1899. He was also a Chaldean-language scholar.

Audishu V Khayyath
Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
ChurchChaldean Catholic Church
ArchdioceseBabylon
SeeBabylon of the Chaldeans
InstalledOctober 28, 1894
Term endedNovember 06, 1899
PredecessorEliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan
SuccessorYousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas
Orders
Ordination1855 (Priest)
Consecration23 Sept 1860 (Bishop)
by Joseph Audo
Personal details
Birth nameGeorges Ebed-Iesu Khayyath
BornOctober 15, 1827
DiedNovember 6, 1899(1899-11-06) (aged 72)
ResidenceIraq

He is remembered also as editor of the Mosul Edition of the Chaldean Peshitta. He wrote of a book with title "Romanorum Pontificum Primatus".

Life

He was born on October 15, 1827 in Mossul. He studied in the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome and was ordained priest in 1855. On 23 September 1860 he was ordained Bishop of Amadiyah, Iraq, by Patriarch Joseph Audo.[1] He was the patriarchal vicar of Mossul from 1863 to 1870 and metropolitan of Amid from 1874 to 1894. He was appointed Patriarch of the Chaldean Church on October 28, 1894 and served till his death on November 6, 1899. He died and was buried at the church of Mary mother of sorrows in Baghdad, modern day Iraq. He replaced Patriarch Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan † and was followed by Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas †.

Images
Audishu V Khayyath meets with Yazidi leaders in Mosul, c. 1895
Audishu V Khayyath
Mar Audishu V Khayyath grave at a Baghdad Chaldean church, Iraq, buried in 1899

References
  1. David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, Peeters Publishers, 2000 ISBN 90-429-0876-9, pag 741

Sources
Preceded by
Eliya XIV Abulyonan
(1878–1894)		 Patriarch of Babylon
of the Chaldean Catholic Church
1894–1899		 Succeeded by
Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas
(1900–1946)
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