Saint Mari was converted by Saint Addai. Saint Aggai was his spiritual director. He did missionary work around Nineveh, Nisibis, and along the Euphrates. He is known to have been one of the great apostles to Syria and Persia. He and Saint Addai are credited with the Divine Liturgy of Addai and Mari. This article is about the ancient Middle Eastern city of Nineveh. ... Nisibis (Nusaybin, province Mardin, south-eastern Turkey) is the ancient Mesopotamian city, which Alexanders successors refounded as Antiochia Mygdonia and is mentioned for the first time in Polybius description of the march of Antiochus against the Molon (Polybius, V, 51). ... Boat on the Shatt-al-Arab The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is in Old Persian Ufrat, Aramaic Prâth/Frot, in Arabic Al-Furat الفرات, in Turkish Fırat and in ancient Assyrian language Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define... Alternate meaning: See Apostle (Mormonism) The Christian Apostles were Jewish men chosen from among the disciples, who were sent forth (as indicated by the Greek word απόστολος apostolos= messenger), by Jesus to preach the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles, across the world. ... Persia and Persian can refer to: the Western name for Iran. ... The Divine Liturgy of Addai and Mari belongs to the Chaldean liturgical family. ...
Mar Dinkha IV His HolinessÂ’ father Andrews, one of the son's of the late Rev. Benyamin, son of Rev. Soro, is from the family of the martyr Mar Dinkha, Bishop of Urmi, Iran.
On 17 October 1976 Mar Dinkha was consecrated as the Patriarch of the universal Assyrian Church of the East.
Mar Abdisho Thondanat Metropolitan died in November 1900 A.D. From 1900-1908 Michael Augustine Cor -Episcopa from Mosul ruled the Church in the absence of a Metropolitan.
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