Catholicos Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East
Native name
ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ ܬܪܝܢܐ
Church
Ancient Church of the East ܥܕܬܐ ܥܬܝܩܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ
Archdiocese
Patriarchal Archdiocese of Baghdad and Basra
See
Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed
20 February 1972
Term ended
11 February 2022
Predecessor
Mar Thoma Darmo (1968–1969)
Successor
Mar Gewargis Younan
Orders
Ordination
20 February 1972 at St. Zaia Cathedral (Baghdad, Iraq)
Rank
Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born
Shlemun Giwargis
(1948-01-06)6 January 1948[citation needed]
Mosul, Iraq
Died
11 February 2022(2022-02-11) (aged 74) Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Nationality
Assyrian
Denomination
Ancient Church of the East
Occupation
Clergy
Previous post(s)
Metropolitan of Iraq (September 1968)
Mar Addai II (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ ܬܪܝܢܐ; born Shlemun Giwargis Syriac: ܫܠܝܡܘܢ ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ 6 January 1948[citation needed] – 11 February 2022) was Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East. He resided in the Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in Baghdad, Iraq.[1]
^"St. Mary's Cathedral, the home of His Holiness Mar Addai II, Patriarch of The Ancient Church of the East, was bombed Sunday morning". Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
Mar AddaiII (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ ܬܪܝܢܐ; born Shlemun Giwargis Syriac: ܫܠܝܡܘܢ ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ 6 January 1948[citation needed] – 11 February 2022) was Catholicos-Patriarch...
(1968–1969) AddaiIIGiwargis (1972–2022) Yacob III Daniel (2022-2022) Gewargis III Younan (9 June 2023 – present) Under the tenure of AddaiII, the Ancient...
the Ancient Church of the East, distinct since 1964 and headed by AddaiIIGiwargis, resident in Baghdad. There are also the Eastern Catholic Churches...
7 September 1969. He was succeeded in 1970 by Catholicos-Patriarch Mar AddaiII. In 1995, under new Patriarch Dinkha IV of the rival Assyrian Church of...
wrestler. Dawn Gibbins, 60–61, British philanthropist and entrepreneur. AddaiIIGiwargis, 74, Iraqi Orthodox prelate, catholicos-patriarch of the Ancient Church...
According to Eastern Christian tradition, Addai of Edessa (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ, Mar Addai or Mor Aday sometimes Latinized Addeus) or Thaddeus of Edessa was...
George Alencherry (Syriac: ܡܵܪܝ ܓܹܝܘܲܪܓܝܼܣ ܐܵܠܲܢܫܹ̰ܝܪܝ, romanized: Mār Gīwargīs Ālancēri; born 19 April 1945) is the Major Archbishop Emeritus of the Syro-Malabar...
Mar Narsai, together with Metropolitan of Nineveh, Mar Toma Giwargis, consecrated Mar AddaiII as Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East...
(780–823) 48. Ishoʿ Bar Nun (823–828) 49. GiwargisII (828–831) 50. Sabrishoʿ II (831–835) 51. Abraham II (837–850) vacant (850–853) 52. Theodosius (853–858)...
became bishop around 680. According to a Syrian Orthodox source, Patriarch Giwargis I (c.659–680) met Isaac on a visit to Beth Qaṭraye and brought him back...
East from 341 to 343. He was martyred during the great persecution of Shapur II. Like several other early bishops of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, he is included in...
up in a monastery in northern China in the 1270s, and the metropolitans Giwargis and Nestoris are mentioned in his biography. Yahballaha himself was consecrated...
Parambil Palliveettil Chandy, Kaduthuruthi Kadavil Chandy, Angamali Vengur Giwargis Kathanar. At a further meeting held at Alangat, on 23 May 1653, another...
turban. — Isabella L. Bird, "Journeys In Persia and Kurdistan", (1891) Mar AddaiII, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East - Ashitha, Lower...
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