Gavlan, Urmia

Gāwīlan (today called Gavlan) may be the diocese of Giennum mentioned in a letter of the patriarch Abdisho IV Maron in 1562.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=312}} The Church of Mar Yoḥannan at Gāwīlan has been tentatively identified with the monastery of Mar Yoḥannan at which Shimun IX Dinkha was elected as patriarch in 1580 and wrote a profession of faith in 1585.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=327}} The village was historically the seat of the Church of the East bishop of Anzel, however, in 1831 the incumbent bishop Yoḥannan resided at the village of Jamalabad instead.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=319}} The American missionary Justin Perkins met Yoḥannan at Gāwīlan in October 1834.{{sfnp|Becker|2015|p=83}}

There were 55 Church of the East families at Gāwīlan with no priests in 1862.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=329}} By 1877, there were 44 Church of the East families with three priests and one functioning church.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=331}} The bishop Yoḥannan of Anzel fled to England in 1882 following an attack on Gāwīlan by Kurds.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=319}} The village was populated by 1000 adherents of the Church of the East and was served by two priests and one church as part of the diocese of Salmas in 1913.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=326}} In 1914, Gāwīlan was inhabited by 200 Assyrian households.{{sfnp|Gaunt|2006|p=417}} The village was entirely Christian.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=328}}

• St. John Church, Gavelan

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• {{cite book | last1 =Becker| first1 =Adam H. |date=2015|title=Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism|publisher=University of Chicago Press}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Gaunt| first1 =David |date=2006|title=Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I|publisher=Gorgias Press|url=https://archive.org/details/massacres-resistance-protectors-muslim-christian-relations-in-eastern-anatolia-d|access-date=21 May 2023}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Hellot-Bellier| first1 =Florence |date=2017|chapter=The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century|title=Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide against the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire|editor1=David Gaunt|editor2=Naures Atto|editor3=Soner O. Barthoma|pages=70–99|url=http://www.aina.org/books/let-them-not-return.pdf|access-date=6 November 2024}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Wilmshurst| first1 =David|date=2000|title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913|publisher=Peeters Publishers|url=http://www.aina.org/books/ecclesiastical-organisation-of-the-church-of-the-east.pdf|access-date=30 October 2024}}

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