He was born in Alqosh . He studied at the Patriarchal Seminary and in 1899 was ordained as its priest. In 1906 he served in Mosul . In 1936 he was consecrated a chorepiscopos and in 1939 served in Ārādn until 1942 when he was consecrated bishop for al-ʿAmadiyya. He died in 1946 and was buried in Karamlish .
He translated from Italian into Syriac a number of books including a book on Alphonse Liguori (Abūna gives the title in Arabic faḍāʾil al-qiddīs Alphonse Liguori ‘Virtues of St. Alfonso Liguori’), a biography of St. Jirardis Magla (Mosul, 1932), a two-volume book also by Liguori (Abūna gives the title in Arabic hidāyat al-nufūs ‘Guidance of the souls’) (vol. 1 Mosul, 1934; vol. 2 ms.).