Shimun XVII Abraham

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Mar Shimun XVII Abraham (also Simon XVII Abraham or Auraham) was Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from c. 1820 to 1861.^[1]

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.^[2] He is buried in the Church of Mar Shalita in Turkey.

See also

• List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East

References

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.
• Grant, Asahel (2004). Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L., ed. The Nestorians, or, The Lost Tribe. Gorgias Press. p. i. ISBN 1-59333-154-1.
• Guest, John S. (1987). The Yezidis: a study in survival. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 0-7103-0115-4.
• Murre-Van Den Berg, H.L. (1997). "Geldelijk of Geestelijk Gewin? Assyrische Bisschoppen Op De Loonlijst Van Een Amerikaanse Zendingspost". Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis. 77 (2): 241–257. doi:10.1163/002820397X00270.
• 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.

External links

• Official site of the Assyrian Church of the East