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Shimun XVII Abraham

{{short description|Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East}}

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| type = Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East

| honorific-prefix = Mar

| name = Shimun XVII Abraham

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| title = His Holiness

| image = Shimun XVII Abraham.jpg

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| church = Assyrian Church of the East

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| diocese = Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis

| see = Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon

| enthroned = 1820

| ended = 1861

| predecessor = Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan

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| successor = Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil

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| birth_date = 1800/01{{cite book|first=George Percy|last=Badger|title=The Nestorians and their Rituals|place=London|publisher=Joseph Masters|volume=1|page=242|quote=[1843] I cannot better describe the person of Mar Shimoon than by quoting the language of Dr. Grant: "The patriarch is thirty-eighty ears {{sic}} of age, [he was four years older when I first saw him,] ...}}

| birth_place = Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire

| death_date = 1861

| death_place = Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire

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| nationality = Assyrian

| religion = Christian, Assyrian Church of the East

| residence = Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire

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{{Eastern Christianity}}

Mar Shimun XVII Abraham (also Simon XVII Abraham or Auraham, 1800/01– 1861) served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from c. 1820 to 1861.{{sfn|Baum|Winkler|2003|p=127, 175}}

He led the church from Qodshanis, (modern Konak, Hakkari) in southeastern Turkey, and tried to maintain good relations with local Ottoman authorities. In 1843, he was faced with renewed hostilities from Kurdish warlords, who attacked many Christian villages and killed 10,000 men, taking away women and children as captives, and forcing Patriarch to take refuge in Mosul.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2000|p=33, 212}} He is buried in the Church of Mar Shalita in Turkey. He also bravely resisted the Kurdish warlords, most prominent resistance being against the Kurdish Nurullah Beg in 1841, where Nurullah unsuccessfully tried to subdue the Assyrians who Shimun led.

See also

References

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Sources

  • {{Cite book|last1=Baum|first1=Wilhelm|authorlink1=Wilhelm Baum (historian)|last2=Winkler|first2=Dietmar W.|author2-link=Dietmar W. Winkler|title=The Church of the East: A Concise History|year=2003|location=London-New York|publisher=Routledge-Curzon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CnSCAgAAQBAJ|isbn=9781134430192}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Baumer|first=Christoph|title=The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity|year=2006|location=London-New York|publisher=Tauris|isbn=9781845111151|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQ7ZAAAAMAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Coakley|first=James F.|title=The Church of the East and the Church of England: A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission|year=1992|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UHcKAQAAMAAJ|isbn=9780198267447}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Nestorians, or, The Lost Tribe|publisher=Gorgias Press|author=Grant, Asahel| editor=Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L.|editor-link = Heleen Murre-van den Berg|year=2004|isbn=1-59333-154-1|page=i}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Yezidis: a study in survival|author=Guest, John S.|publisher=Routledge | year=1987 | isbn=0-7103-0115-4 | page=74 }}
  • {{cite journal|title=Geldelijk of Geestelijk Gewin? Assyrische Bisschoppen Op De Loonlijst Van Een Amerikaanse Zendingspost| author=Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L. | journal=Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis |volume=77 |number=2 |year=1997 |pages=241–257 |doi=10.1163/002820397X00270}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Wilmshurst|first=David|title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913|year=2000|location=Louvain|publisher=Peeters Publishers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jB8ir0ek8bgC|isbn=9789042908765}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Wilmshurst|first=David|title=The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East|year=2011|location=London|publisher=East & West Publishing Limited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfxNtwAACAAJ|isbn=9781907318047}}

External links

{{wikisource author|Shimun XVII Abraham}}

  • [http://news.assyrianchurch.org/holy-synod/ Official site of the Assyrian Church of the East]

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|before=Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan

|title=Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East

|years=1820–1861

|after=Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil

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Category:1861 deaths

Category:Patriarchs of the Church of the East

Category:Assyrians from the Ottoman Empire

Category:19th-century bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East

Category:Year of birth uncertain

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