Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition
List of Patriarchs: I. The Church of the East and its Uniate continuations
Samuel
Burleson
&
Lucas
Van Rompay
Main secondary sources:
- D. D. Benjamin, The patriarchs of the Church of
the East (Translated from Assyrian into English by Y. A.
Baaba) (2008). (includes a comparison of different existing lists)
- J. F. Coakley, ‘The patriarchal list of the Church of the East’, in
After Bardaisan. Studies on continuity and
change in Syriac Christianity in honour of Professor Han J. W.
Drijvers, ed. G. J. Reinink and A. C. Klugkist (OLA 89; 1999), 65–83. (includes comparative discussion
of two lists, by Yawsep d-Beth Qelayta [1924, reprint 1955] and by
Iskhaq Rehana d-Beth Gadda [1965, reprint 1988])
- J. M. Fiey, Pour un Oriens christianus
novus (Beiruter Texte und Studien 49; 1993), 20–41.
-
H. L. Murre-van den Berg, ‘The patriarchs of the Church of the East
from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries’, Hugoye 2.2 (1999).
- B. Spuler, ‘Die morgenländischen Kirchen’, in Handbuch der Orientalistik I.VIII.2 (1964), 209–11.
- H. Teule, Les Assyro-Chaldéens. Chrétiens d’Irak,
d’Iran et de Turquie (Fils d’Abraham, 2008), 211–14.
- E. Tisserant, ‘L’Église nestorienne’, in Dictionnaire de théologie catholique XI.1 (1931), col.
260–63.
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Aḥadabu(h)y
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c. 204 (?)
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Shaḥlupa
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220 – 240 |
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Papa bar ʿAggai
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d. between 327 and 335
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Shemʿon bar Ṣabbaʿe
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d. 341 or 344
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Shahdost
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Barbaʿshmin
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Tomarsa/Tamuza
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Qayyoma
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Isḥaq
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ca. 399/400 – 410/11
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Aḥai
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410 – 415
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Yahbalaha I
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415 – 420
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Maʿna
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420
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Farabokht
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421
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Dadishoʿ I
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ca. 421 – 456
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Babowai
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457 – 484
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Aqaq
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484 – 495/6
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Babai
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497 – 502/3
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Shila
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503 – 523
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Narsai and Elishaʿ
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524 – 537 |
Pawlos
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537 – 538/9
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Aba I
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540 – 552
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Yawsep I
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552 – 567
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Ḥazqiel I
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567 (or 570) – 581
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Ishoʿyahb I
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ca. 581/2 – 595
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Sabrishoʿ I
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596 – 604
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Grigor I
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605 – ca. 610
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Ishoʿyahb II of Gdala
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628 – 645
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Maremeh
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646 – 649
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Ishoʿyahb III of Adiabene
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649 – 659
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Gewargis I
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ca. 659 – 680/1
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Yoḥannan I
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680/1 – 683
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Ḥenanishoʿ I
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685/6 – 699/700
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[Yoḥannan II
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ca. 692 (?)]
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Ṣlibhazkha
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713/4 – 727/8
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Petyon
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731 – 741
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Aba II of Kashkar
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741 – 751
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Surin
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ca. 754
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Yaʿqob II
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754 – 773
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Ḥenanishoʿ II
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773 – 779/80
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Timotheos I
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779/80 – 823
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Ishoʿ bar Nun
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823 – 828
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Gewargis II
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828 – 829/30
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Sabrishoʿ II
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831 – 835
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Abraham II
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837 – 850
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Theodosios
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853 – 858
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Sargis I
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860 – 872
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(Israel of Kashkar) |
d. 877
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Anosh/Enosh
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877 – 884
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Yoḥannan II bar Narsai
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884 – 891/2
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Yoḥannan III
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893 – 899
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Yoḥannan IV bar Abgare
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900 – 905
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Abraham III Abraza
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905 – 936/7
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Emmanuel I
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937 – 960
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Israel I
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961
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ʿAbdishoʿ I
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963 – 986
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Mari bar Ṭobi
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987 – 999
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Yoḥannan V
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1000 – 1011
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Yoḥannan VI Nasuk (bar Nazuk)
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1012 – 1020
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Ishoʿyahb IV bar Ḥazqiel
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1020 – 1025
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Eliya I of Ṭirhan
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1028 – 1049
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Yoḥannan VII bar Ṭargal (b. Ṭargala)
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1050 – 1057
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Sabrishoʿ III Zanbur
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1064 – 1072
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ʿAbdishoʿ b. al-ʿĀrid
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1074 – 1090
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Makkika I
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1092 – 1109/10
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Eliya II bar Molki (bar Maqli)
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1111 – 1132
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Barṣawma I
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1134 – 1136
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ʿAbdishoʿ III bar Molki (b. Maqli)
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1139 – 1148
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Ishoʿyahb V Baladi
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1149 – 1175
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Eliya III Abū Ḥalīm
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1176 – 1190
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Yahbalaha II
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1190 – 1222
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Sabrishoʿ IV bar Qayyoma
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1222 – 1225
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Sabhrishoʿ V b. al-Masīḥī
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1226 – 1256
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Makkika II
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1257 – 1265
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Denḥa I
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1265 – 1281
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Yahbalaha III
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1281 – 1317
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Timotheos II
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1318 – 1332 (?)
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Denḥa II
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1336/7 – 1381/2
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Shemʿon II
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Shemʿon III
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Eliya IV
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ca. 1437
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Shemʿon IV Basidi
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1437 – 1497
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Shemʿon V
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1497 – 1502
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Eliya V
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1502 – 1504
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Shemʿon VI
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1504 – 1538
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Shemʿon VII bar Mama
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1538/9 – 1558
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The Patriarchate of Rabban Hormizd
(successors of Bar
Mama, 1551–1804)
Eliya VI bar Gewargis
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1558/9 – 1591
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Eliya VII
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1591 – 1617
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Eliya VIII Shemʿon
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1617 – 1660
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Eliya IX Yoḥannan Marawgin
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1660 – 1700
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Eliya X Marawgin
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1700 – 1722
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Eliya XI Denḥa
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1722 – 1778
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Eliya XII Ishoʿyahb
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1778 – 1804
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First Attempt at Union with Rome (1551-1692)
Yoḥannan Sullaqa (Shemʿon VIII) |
1553 – 1555
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ʿAbdishoʿ IV of Gazarta
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1555 – 1567 (1570)
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Shemʿon (Yahbalaha)
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1572 – 1576 (?)
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Yahbalaha Shemʿon
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1577 – 1579/80
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Shemʿon IX Denḥa
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1580 – 1600
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Shemʿon X
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1600 – 1638 (1625?)
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Shemʿon XI
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1638 – 1656
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Shemʿon XII Yoḥannan
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1656 – 1662
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Shemʿon XIII Denḥa
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1662 – 1700
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Second Attempt at Union with Rome: The Patriarchate of Amid/Diyarbakir
(1681 – 1828)
Yawsep I
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1681 – 1696
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Yawsep II (Ṣliba
d-Beth Maʿruf) |
1696 – 1713
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Yawsep III Timotheos Marawgin
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1714 – 1757
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Yawsep IV Lazaros Hindi
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1759 – 1781 (1796)
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Yawsep V Augustin Hindi
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1781 (1802) – 1828
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The Uniate Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon (Mosul, Baghdad,
1830 to date)
Yoḥannan VIII (Eliya) Hormizd
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1830 – 1838
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Nicholas Eshaʿya (Zayʿa)
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1838 – 1847
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Yawsep VI Audo
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1848 – 1878
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Eliya XIV (XII, XIII) Abū al-Yūnan
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1879 – 1894
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ʿAbdishoʿ V Khayyāṭ
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1895 – 1898
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Yawsep VI Emmanuel Toma
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1900 – 1947
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Yawsep VII Ghanīma
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1947 – 1958
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Pawlos II Cheikho
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1958 – 1989
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Raphael I Bidawid
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1989 – 2003
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Emmanuel III Delly
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2003 to date
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The Assyrian Church of the East (line of Qudshanis and its
continuation, 1700 to date)
Shemʿon XIV Shlemon
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1700 – 1740
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Shemʿon XV Michael Mukhtas
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1740 – 1780
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Shemʿon XVI Yoḥannan
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1780 – 1820
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Shemʿon XVII Abraham
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1820 – 1860
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Shemʿon XVIII Rubel
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1860 – 1903
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Shemʿon XIX Benyamin
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1903 – 1918
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Shemʿon XX Pawlos (Polos Shemʿon)
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1918 – 1920
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Shemʿon XXI Eshai (Eshai Shemʿon) |
1920 – 1975
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Denḥa IV
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1976 to date
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The Ancient Church of the East (
1968 to date
)
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List of Patriarchs: I. The Church of the East and its Uniate continuations
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