Mar Shimun XVII Abraham (also Simon XVII Abraham or Auraham, 1800/01– 1861) served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from c. 1820 to 1861.[2]
Shimun XVII Abraham | |
|---|---|
| His Holiness | |
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| Church | Assyrian 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 |
| Orders | |
| Rank | Catholicos-Patriarch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1800/01[1] |
| Died | 1861 Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire |
| Nationality | Assyrian |
| Denomination | Christian, Assyrian Church of the East |
| Residence | Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire |
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 10,000 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[4]
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edit- ^ Badger, George Percy. The Nestorians and their Rituals. Vol. 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,] ...
- ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 127, 175.
- ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 33, 212.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Guest, John S. (1987). The Yezidis: a study in survival. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 0-7103-0115-4.
- 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:10.1163/002820397X00270.241-257&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info:doi/10.1163/002820397X00270&rft.au=Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Shimun XVII Abraham" class="Z3988">
- 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.
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