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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | The Holy Apostolic and Catholic Assyrian Church of the East is a Christian church that traces its origins to the See of Babylon, said to be founded by Saint Thomas the Apostle.[citation needed] In India, it is known as the Chaldean Syrian Church. In the West it is often known, inaccurately, as the Nestorian Church. The Assyrian Church is the original Christian church in what was once Parthia; today Iraq and western Iran. Geographically it stretched in the medieval period to China and India: a monument found in Xi'an (Hsi-an), the Tang-period capital of China (originally Chang'an), in Chinese and Syriac described the activities of the church in the 7th and 8th century, while half a millennium later the Chinese monk Rabban Bar Sauma went from Beijing to Paris and Rome to call for a crusade with the Mongols against the Mamelukes. Prior to the Portuguese arrival in India in 1498, it provided "East Syrian" bishops to the Saint Thomas Christians. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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Chaldean Syrian Church is the name used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India. ...
Parthia[1] (Middle Persian: اشکانیان Ashkâniân) was a civilization situated in the northeast of modern Iran, but at its height covering all of Iran proper, as well as regions of the modern countries of Armenia, Iraq, Georgia, eastern Turkey, eastern Syria, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, the Persian Gulf...
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Current Synod members
Patriarch
Mar Dinkha IV Mar Dinkha IV (Born September 15, 1935), is the present Patriarch of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in Darbandoki and baptized in the church of Mar Qaryaqos. Later on he was ordained a deacon by Metropolitan Mar Yosip Khnanisho in the church of Mar Youkhana in Harir. He then became the bishop of Tehran, Iran where he brought many changes to the Assyrians of Iran. At a conference in London in 1976 he was chosen as Patriarch. Image File history File links Mar_Dinkha_IV_Khanaya. ...
Mar Dinkha IV Mar Khanania Dinkha IV, was born on September 15, 1935, in the province of Darbandoki, Assyria. ...
The symbol of the Assyrian Church The Holy Apostolic and Catholic Assyrian Church of the East under His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV, is a Christian church that traces its origins to the See of Babylon, said to be founded by Saint Thomas the Apostle. ...
Remains of the Assyrian village Darbandoki Darbandoki, was a village which was previously inhabited by both Kurds and Assyrians. ...
Mar Yosip Khnanisho Mar Yosip Khnanisho (Syriac: Ü¡ÜªÜ Üܘܣܦ ܚܢܢÜܫܘܥ) was dedicated to the service of the Lord, exercised self denial by abstaining from all food prepared from animal meat or meat being one of the ingredients, until the time he was born in 1893. ...
Harir is an Assyrian village and a sub-district located in the district of Soran, Iraq. ...
Tehran (also spelled Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 8,000,000 (metropolitan: 10,000,000), is the capital of Iran and one of the major world cities. ...
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In 1994 he agreed to a Joint Christological Declaration with the Vatican. In 1996 he signed an agreement of cooperation with Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad, Raphael I Bidawid, in Southfield, Michigan. In 1997 he entered into negotiations with the Syrian Orthodox Church and the two stopped anathemizing each other. Mar Dinkha currently lives near Chicago and Illinois is now generally the center of the Assyrian Church of the East. Southfield is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. ...
The Syriac Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Middle East with members spread throughout the world. ...
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More info... Mar Dinkha IV Mar Khanania Dinkha IV, was born on September 15, 1935, in the province of Darbandoki, Assyria. ...
Metropolitans
Mar Narsai D'Baz Mar Narsai D'Baz, is the Metropolitan of all Europe, Lebanon and Syria. Image File history File links Mar_Narsaid_Baz. ...
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Mar Aprem Mooken Mar Aprem Mooken, is the Assyrian Church of the East Metropolitan of India. Mar Aprem (formerly George Mooken) was born in Trichur, Kerala, India, in June 1940. Educated in India, England and America, he specialised in Church History. He was the President of the Church History Association of India in 1976-1982. Image File history File links Mar_Aprem_Mooken. ...
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He holds two master's degrees in Church History, one from the United Theological College, Bangalore (M. Th, of Serampore, 1966) and the other from the Union Theological Seminary, New York (S.T.M. degree, 1967). He was a candidate for Doctor of Theology (Th. D) degree at Princeton Theological Seminary, U.S.A., when he was consecrated Bishop in Baghdad, Iraq in 1968. Later he earned his D.Th. degree from Serampore University, near Calcutta. Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam granted a Ph. D degree in Syriac Studies to him in 2002.
Ordained a deacon on June 25, 1961, he became a priest on the day he completed twenty five years of age on 13 June, 1965. He was consecrated Bishop on 21st September, 1968 and promoted as a Metropolitan eight days later in Baghdad. In 1995 he was instrumental in healing the rift that had developed in the church over the question of hereditary appointments since the 1960s. He is the author of several books on church history, theology, social issues, and even humor.
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Mar Gewargis Sliwa Mar Gewargis Sliwa, is the Metropolitan of all Iraq and Russia. Image File history File links Mar_Giwargis_Sliwa. ...
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Bishops
Mar Sargis Yosip Mar Sargis Yousip, is the Bishop of Baghdad, Iraq. Image File history File links Mar_Sargis_Yousip. ...
Mar Sargis Yousip, is the Assyrian Church of the Easts Bishop of Baghdad, Iraq. ...
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Mar Aprem Khamis Mar Aprem Khamis, of Western United States. Image File history File links Mar_Aprem_Khamis. ...
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Mar Meelis Zaia Mar Meelis Zaia, is the Bishop of Australia and New Zealand. He was ordained a priest of the Church in 1982 in California, USA. He was appointed Bishop of the Church’s diocese of Australia and New Zealand in 1984 and arrived to take up that position in March 1985 which he has held up until the present time. Image File history File links Mar_Mealis_Zaya. ...
More info... Mar Meelis Zaya, is the Assyrian Church of the Easts Bishop of Australia and New Zealand. ...
Mar Emmanuel Mar Emmanuel Emmanuel is an Assyrian, who was born in the Baghdad suburb of Dora, and is currently the Assyrian Church of the East's Bishop of Canada. He was raised by a very religious Christian family in Iraq, Who have since moved to the USA. He became a Deacon in 1981 and a priest in 1984 at Mar Gewargis, Assyrian Church in Chicago. Mar Emmanuel was ordinated as a Bishop in 1990 on June 3. He has an Master of Divinity and he graduated from the University of Toronto with a Masters Degree in "Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations". Image File history File links Mar_Emmanuel_Emmanuel. ...
Mar Emmanuel Emmanuel is an Assyrian, who was born in the Baghdad suburb of Dora, and is currently the Assyrian Church of the Easts Bishop of Canada. ...
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Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...
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The Assyrian Church of the East is a church that traces its origins to the See of Babylon, said to be founded by Saint Thomas the Apostle. ...
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Mar Odisho Oraham Mar Odisho Oraham, is the Bishop of Europe with residence in Sweden. Image File history File links Mar_Awdisho. ...
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Mar Aprem Natniel Mar Aprem Natniel, is the Bishop of Syria. Image File history File links Mar_Aprem_Natniel. ...
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Mar Iskhaq Yosip Mar Iskhaq Yosip, is the Bishop of the Northern Iraq and Russia. Image File history File links Mar_Iskhaq_Yousip. ...
Mar Iskhaq Yosip is the Assyrian Church Bishop of Northern Iraq and Russia. ...
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Previous Synod members
Patriarchs
Mar Benyamin Shimon XXI Mar Benyamin Shimon XXI, was at one time the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was assassinated by a Kurdish Leader named Simko. After his murder in 1915 the Kurdish people stripped and dragged his dead body in the village streets. Image File history File links Mar_Benyamin_Shimun. ...
Mar Benyamain was ordained Metropolis by his uncle the then Patriarch, Mar Rowil (Ruben) Shimun, Catholicos Patriarch, XX. Upon Mar Rowil's death, Mar Benyamin was ordained the twenty first Patriarch by Mar Yousip Khnanisho, Bishop of Rustaqa and Mar Zaia Sargis, Bishop of Jilu. He was murdered in 1918 by an ambush of Simco and his men when Simco invited His Holiness Mar Benyamin under false pretenses of a peace accord. The Rab Khaila Dawid d'Mar Shimun, Mar Benyamin's brother accompanied him and survived the onslaught of Kurdish gun fire. Mar Yousip Khnanisho Mar Yousip Khnanisho (Syriac: Ü¡ÜªÜ Üܘܣܦ ܚܢܢÜܫܘܥ), who was the spiritual leader of the Shamezdin Assyrians was Metropolitan Mar Yousip Khnanisho of the Assyrian Church of the East, who, in the old days was styled as the Metropolitan of Rustaqa. ...
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Is a region located in Hakkari which was inhabited by Assyrians before the Assyrian genocide. ...
More info... Mar Binyamin Shimon XXI Mar Binyamin Shimon XXI (1887 - March, 1918) was a Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. ...
Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII, sometimes known as Mar Shimun XXI Ishaya, Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1920 until his assassination on November 6, 1975. (The difference in regnal numbers depends on which members of the Shimun family one counts as Patriarchs; Mar Eshai himself came to use the regnal number XXIII.) Image File history File links Mar_Eshai_Shimun_XXIII.JPG No source File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Church of the East related to those churches under the dominion of the first Patriarchate of Jerusalem which was first transferred from Jerusalem to Pella as following the 135CE Roman ban on Jews the city was given over to Antiochs jurisdiction. ...
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Born into the patriarchal family in Qudshanis in 1908, Mar Eshai was chosen as patriarch on the death of his uncle. He was educated in Britain and was the translator or author of several books on the theology and history of the Church of the East. The uncertainties caused in 1933 by the independence of Iraq from colonial rule forced the patriarch's relocation to Cyprus and then, in 1940, to Chicago. Mar Eshai became an American citizen about 1949 and settled in the San Francisco area in 1954. Qochanis, also Qudshanes or Kotchanes, a town to the North of Hakkari in the Southeastern corner of present Turkey, near the Greater Zab River, was the seat of the patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Seventeenth Century until 1915. ...
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Metropolitans
Mar Yosip Khnanisho Mar Yosip Khnanisho, who was the spiritual leader of the Shamizdin Assyrians and he was Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East, who, in the old days was styled as the Metropolitan of Rustaqa. His Diocese in 1914 included Shamizdin, Tergawar, and Margawar. Under him were bishop Mar Dinkha IV in the village of Tis, an ancestor of the present Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Dinkha IV; bishop Mar Youkhana of the village of Tulaki in Tergawar, and after 1914 his own nephew bishop Mar Yousip who was ordained on the eve of WWI in Qochanis by Patriarch Mar Benyamin Shimon XXI. Image File history File links Mar_Yousip. ...
Mar Yosip Khnanisho Mar Yosip Khnanisho (Syriac: Ü¡ÜªÜ Üܘܣܦ ܚܢܢÜܫܘܥ) was dedicated to the service of the Lord, exercised self denial by abstaining from all food prepared from animal meat or meat being one of the ingredients, until the time he was born in 1893. ...
Shamizdin, also known as modern day Åžemdinli in Turkish, is a district located in south-east Turkey in the Hakkari Province of Turkey. ...
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Shamizdin, also known as modern day Åžemdinli in Turkish, is a district located in south-east Turkey in the Hakkari Province of Turkey. ...
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Mar Dinkha IV Mar Khanania Dinkha IV, was born on September 15, 1935, in the province of Darbandoki, Assyria. ...
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Is a region located in Hakkari which was inhabited by Assyrians before the Assyrian genocide. ...
Qochanis, also Qudshanes or Kotchanes, a town to the North of Hakkari in the Southeastern corner of present Turkey, near the Greater Zab River, was the seat of the patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Seventeenth Century until 1915. ...
Mar Binyamin Shimon XXI Mar Binyamin Shimon XXI (1887 - March, 1918) was a Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. ...
More info... Mar Yosip Khnanisho Mar Yosip Khnanisho (Syriac: Ü¡ÜªÜ Üܘܣܦ ܚܢܢÜܫܘܥ) was dedicated to the service of the Lord, exercised self denial by abstaining from all food prepared from animal meat or meat being one of the ingredients, until the time he was born in 1893. ...
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