Shimun XVIII Rubil

Mar
Shimun XVIII Rubil
His Holiness
Shimun XVIII Rubil in 1897
Church Assyrian Church of the East
Diocese Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
See Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed 1861
Term ended 1903
Predecessor Shimun XVII Abraham
Successor Shimun XIX Benyamin
Orders
Rank Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born Qodshanis, Hakkari
Died 1903
Qodshanis, Hakkari
Nationality Assyrian (Ottoman)
Denomination Christian, Assyrian Church of the East
Residence Qodshanis, Hakkari

Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil (also Simon XVIII Rouel or Rowil) was Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1861 to 1903, succeeding his uncle Shimun XVII Abraham.[1]

He led the church from Qodshanis, in southeastern Turkey. In 1869, he received an invitation from the Vatican to attend the First Vatican Council as an observer, but he did not accept the invitation,[2] and he also rejected other initiatives for the union with the Catholic Church.[3] The Catholicos-Patriarch died on March 16, 1903 and was succeeded by Shimun XIX Benyamin.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 129, 175.
  2. ↑ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 129-130.
  3. ↑ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 35-36.

Sources

  • Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon.
  • Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris.
  • Coakley, James F. (1992). The Church of the East and the Church of England: A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • 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.
Assyrian Church of the East titles
Preceded by
Mar Shimun XVII Abraham		 Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East
1861–1903		 Succeeded by
Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin



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