Shimun XVII Abraham
Shimun XVII Abraham | |
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| Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East | |
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| Church | Church of the East |
| Diocese | Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis |
| See | Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon |
| Installed | 1820 |
| Term ended | 1861 |
| Predecessor | Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan |
| Successor | Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil |
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| Rank | Catholicos-Patriarch |
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| Born | 1800/01[1] Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1861 Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire |
| Denomination | Christian, Church of the East |
| Residence | Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire |
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Mar Shimun XVII Abraham (also Simon XVII Abraham or Auraham, 1800/01– 1861) served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East from c. 1820 to 1861.[2]
He led the church from Qodshanis (modern Konak, Hakkari) in southeastern Turkey, and tried to maintain good relations with local Ottoman authorities. In 1843, he was faced with renewed hostilities from Kurdish warlords, who attacked many Christian villages and killed 3,300 men, taking away women and children as captives, and forcing Patriarch to take refuge in Mosul.[3] He is buried in the Church of Mar Shalita in Turkey. He also bravely resisted the Kurdish warlords, most prominent resistance being against the Kurdish Nurullah Beg in 1841, where Nurullah unsuccessfully tried to subdue the Assyrians who Shimun led.
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References
- ↑ Badger, George Percy. The Nestorians and their Rituals. 1. London: Joseph Masters. p. 242.
[1843] I cannot better describe the person of Mar Shimoon than by quoting the language of Dr. Grant: "The patriarch is thirty-eighty ears [sic] of age, [he was four years older when I first saw him,] ...
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- ↑ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 127, 175.
- ↑ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 33, 212.
Sources
- Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192. Search this book on
- Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris. ISBN 9781845111151. Search this book on
- Coakley, James F. (1992). The Church of the East and the Church of England: A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198267447. Search this book on
- Grant, Asahel (2004). Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L., ed. The Nestorians, or, The Lost Tribe. Gorgias Press. p. i. ISBN 1-59333-154-1. Search this book on
- Guest, John S. (1987). The Yezidis: a study in survival. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 0-7103-0115-4. Search this book on
- Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L. (1997). "Geldelijk of Geestelijk Gewin? Assyrische Bisschoppen Op De Loonlijst Van Een Amerikaanse Zendingspost". Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis. 77 (2): 241–257. doi:10.1163/002820397X00270.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765. Search this book on
- Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047. Search this book on
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| Preceded by Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan |
Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East 1820–1861 |
Succeeded by Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil |
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