Eliya VI

Eliya VI (Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ‎ / Elīyā, d. 26 May 1591) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1558 to 1591, with residence in Rabban Hormizd Monastery, near Alqosh, in modern Iraq.[1][2] In older historiography, he was designated as Eliya VI,[3] but later renumbered as Eliya "VII" by some authors, who believed that during the period from 1558 to 1591 there were two successive Eliya patriarchs (first in 1558-1576, and second in 1576-1591).[4][5] After the resolution of several chronological questions, he was designated again as Eliya VI,[6][7][8] and that numeration is accepted in recent scholarly works.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Mar Eliya VI
Patriarch of All the East
Church	Church of the East
Installed	1558
Term ended	1591
Predecessor	Shemon VII Ishoyahb
Successor	Eliya VII
Personal details
Died	May 26, 1591
Residence	Rabban Hormizd Monastery

The ancient Rabban Hormizd Monastery, former residence of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East

Biography

Eliya was younger nephew of patriarch Shemon VII Ishoyahb (1539-1558), who originally designated Eliya's older brother Hnanishoʿ as his successor. Several years later, probably because Hnanishoʿ had died in the interim, patriarch Shemon VII transferred the succession to his other nephew, fifteen-year-old Eliya. Thus he became natar kursya (designated successor) of the Patriarchal Throne. In 1545, Eliya was made Metropolitan. His uncle, patriarch Shemon VII, died on 1 November 1558, and was succeeded by Eliya who became new Patriarch of All the East. During his patriarchal tenure, from 1558 to 1591, Church of the East preserved its traditional christology and ecclesiastical independence. He died on May 26, 1591, and was buried in the Rabban Hormizd Monastery.[16]

See also

• Patriarch of the Church of the East
• List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East
• Assyrian Church of the East

Notes

1. Wilmshurst 2000, p. 355.
2. Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 116.
3. Malech & Malech 1910, p. 315.
4. Tisserant 1931, p. 261-263.
5. Fiey 1993, p. 37.
6. Lampart 1966, p. 53-54, 64.
7. Macomber 1969, p. 263-273.
8. Murre van den Berg 1999, p. 243-244.
9. Baum & Winkler 2000, p. 104, 152.
10. Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 116, 174.
11. Baum 2004, p. 232.
12. Baumer 2005, p. 249, 312.
13. Hage 2007, p. 473.
14. Jakob 2014, p. 96.
15. Borbone 2014, p. 224.
16. Wilmshurst 2000, p. 22, 42 194, 260, 355.

References

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• Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon.
• Baum, Wilhelm (2004). "Die sogenannten Nestorianer im Zeitalter der Osmanen (15. bis 19. Jahrhundert)". Zwischen Euphrat und Tigris: Österreichische Forschungen zum Alten Orient. Münster-Wien: LIT Verlag. pp. 229–246.
• Baumer, Christoph (2005). Frühes Christentum zwischen Euphrat und Jangtse: Eine Zeitreise entlang der Seidenstraße zur Kirche des Ostens. Stuttgart: Urachhaus.
• Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris.
• Borbone, Pier Giorgio (2014). "The Chaldean Business: The Beginnings of East Syriac Typography and the Profession of Faith of Patriarch Elias". Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae. 20: 211–258.
• Fiey, Jean Maurice (1993). Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. Beirut: Orient-Institut.
• Hage, Wolfgang (2007). Das orientalische Christentum. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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• Lampart, Albert (1966). Ein Märtyrer der Union mit Rom: Joseph I. 1681-1696, Patriarch der Chaldäer. Köln: Benziger Verlag.
• Macomber, William F. (1969). "A Funeral Madraša on the Assassination of Mar Hnanišo". Mémorial Mgr Gabriel Khouri-Sarkis (1898-1968). Louvain: Imprimerie orientaliste. pp. 263–273.
• Malech, George D.; Malech, Nestorius G. (1910). History of the Syrian nation and the Old Evangelical-Apostolic Church of the East: From Remote Antiquity to the Present Time. Minneapolis: Author's edition.
• Murre van den Berg, Heleen H. L. (1999). "The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2 (2): 235–264.
• Tisserant, Eugène (1931). "L'Église nestorienne". Dictionnaire de théologie catholique. 11. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. pp. 157–323.
• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers.
• Wilmshurst, David (2011). The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited.

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