Shimun XVI Yohannan


Shimun XVI Yohannan
Patriarch
ChurchAssyrian Church of the East
DiocesePatriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
SeeHoly Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed1780 (Patriarch of the Shem'on line)
Term ended1820
PredecessorShimun XV Maqdassi Mikhail as Patriarch of the Shem'on line
SuccessorShimun XVII Abraham
Orders
RankCatholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born
Died1820 (1821)
DenominationEastern Christian, Church of the East
ResidenceQodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire

Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan (also Shemon XVI Yohannan) was Patriarch of the Shem'on line (inQodshanis) of the Assyrian Church of the East, from 1780 to 1820. In 1804, he became the sole patriach of an anti-Catholic faction of the historic Church of the East after his rival, Patriarch Eliya XII of the historic Eliya line, was succeeded by his cousin Yohannan VIII Hormizd, who continued the Eliya line as the patriarchs of the Chaldean Catholic Church.[1][2][3]

Biography

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.[5][6][7][8][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Murre van den Berg 1999a, p. 257.
  2. ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 316-319, 356.
  3. ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 120, 175.
  4. ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 30, 263-264.
  5. ^ Spuler 1961, p. 165.
  6. ^ Ebied 1972, p. 511.
  7. ^ Murre van den Berg 1999b, p. 35.
  8. ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 120.
  9. ^ Hage 2007, p. 400.

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