Shimun XVI Yohannan
Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan (also Shemon XVI Yohannan) was Patriarch of the Qodshanis branch 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 | |
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| His Holiness | |
| Church | Church of the East (modern Assyrian Church of the East) |
| Diocese | Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis |
| See | Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon |
| Installed | 1780 (1804) |
| Term ended | 1820 |
| Predecessor | Shimun XV Maqdassi Mikhail as Patriarch belonging to the Shimun line, and Eliya XII as Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East(d. 1804) |
| Successor | Shimun XVII Abraham |
| Orders | |
| Rank | Catholicos-Patriarch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Qodshanis, Hakkari |
| Died | 1820 Qodshanis, Hakkari |
| Nationality | Assyrian (Ottoman) |
| Denomination | Eastern Christian, Church of the East |
| Residence | Qodshanis, Hakkari |
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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. 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
References
- 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
- Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon.
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- Benjamin, Daniel D. (2008). The Patriarchs of the Church of the East. Piscataway: Gorgias Press.
- 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.
- Coakley, James F. (2001). "Mar Elia Aboona and the History of the East Syrian Patriarchate". Oriens Christianus. 85: 119–138.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Spuler, Bertold (1961). "Die nestorianische Kirche". Religionsgeschichte des Orients in der Zeit der Weltreligionen. Leiden: Brill. pp. 120–169.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers.
- Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited.
- Wilmshurst, David (2019). "The Patriarchs of the Church of the East". The Syriac World. London: Routledge. pp. 799–805.
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| Preceded by Shimun XV Maqdassi Mikhail and Eliya XII (d. 1804) |
Patriarch of the Church of the East 1780 (1804) – 1820 |
Succeeded by Shimun XVII Abraham |