20th- and 21st-century Patriarch of the Church of the East
Mar
Dinkha IV ܡܪܝ ܕܢܚܐ ܪܒܝܥܝܐ
His Holiness
Dinkha IV presiding at the Assyrian Eucharist (or Raza) in a church near Chicago in June 2008.
Church
Assyrian Church of the East
Diocese
Patriarchal Diocese of the Eastern United States
See
Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (in exile in Chicago)
Installed
17 October 1976
Term ended
26 March 2015
Predecessor
Mar Shimun XXI Eshai
Successor
Mar Gewargis III
Other post(s)
Deaconate at Mar Yokhanan Church, Harir (1950), Bishopric at Urmia (11 February 1962)
Orders
Ordination
15 August 1957
Consecration
11 February 1962 by Shimun XXI Eshai
Rank
Bishop
Personal details
Born
Dinkha Khananya (Khanania)
15 September 1935
Darbandokeh, Iraq
Died
26 March 2015(2015-03-26) (aged 79) Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
Buried
Montrose Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality
Assyrian
Denomination
Assyrian Church of the East
Residence
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Parents
Andrews Khananya (father) and Panna Khananya (mother)
Occupation
Cleric
Mar Dinkha IV (Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܕܢܚܐ ܪܒܝܥܝܐ and Arabic: مار دنخا الرابع), born Dinkha Khanania (15 September 1935 – 26 March 2015)[1] was an Eastern Christian prelate who served as the 120th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in the village of Darbandokeh (Derbendoki), Iraq and led the Church in exile in Chicago for most of his life.
^Awa Royel (27 March 2015). "Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV Enters Eternal Rest". The Orthodox Church. Archived from the original on 31 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
Mar DinkhaIV (Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܕܢܚܐ ܪܒܝܥܝܐ and Arabic: مار دنخا الرابع), born Dinkha Khanania (15 September 1935 – 26 March 2015) was an Eastern...
London, and elected Dinkha as the 120th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East. On 17 October he was consecrated as DinkhaIV at St Barnabas Church...
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subdeacon, and the following year became a deacon. He was ordained by Mar DinkhaIV. Both ordinations took place at Mar Gewargis Cathedral (St. George Cathedral)...
Church of the East elected Mar Gewargis Sliwa to succeed the late Mar DinkhaIV as the head of the Church. On 27 September 2015, he was formally consecrated...
1990, Emmanuel Rehana Yosip was consecrated as Bishop of Canada by Mar DinkhaIV, taking the name Mar Emmanuel Yosip. As Bishop, Mar Emmanuel has been...
Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute. Mooken, Aprem (2004). Patriarch Mar DinkhaIV: The Man and His Message. Trichur: Mar Narsai Press. ISBN 9788190220507...
a schism with the Catholic Church), the Assyrian Church Patriarch Mar DinkhaIV and Pope John Paul II signed a common declaration at the Vatican in 1994;...
Mar DinkhaIV, visited Pope John Paul II in Rome in 1984 and participated in a day of prayer for peace at Assisi in 1986. In 1994, Mar Dinkha and Pope...
1970 by Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Addai II. In 1995, under new Patriarch DinkhaIV of the rival Assyrian Church of the East, reconciliation between fractions...
duties in the Church of the East. In 1995 Mar Eshai's successor, Mar DinkhaIV, was able to mostly heal the rift. 17% (the Ancient Church of the East)...
several attempts were made to heal the schism. In 1995, under new Patriarch DinkhaIV of the Assyrian Church of the East, an agreement with Metropolitan Aprem...
His Beatitude in place of the earlier His Grace. He was blessed by Mar DinkhaIV who flew from Chicago along with a further five bishops from around the...
in the Vatican on 11 November 1994, by Pope John Paul II and Patriarch DinkhaIV. In this document the Assyrian and Catholic churches confessed the same...
ecumenism have not been undertaken. In 1994, Pope John Paul II and Patriarch DinkhaIV signed the Common Christological Declaration Between the Catholic Church...
have improved in recent years. In 1994, Pope John Paul II and Patriarch DinkhaIV of the Assyrian Church of the East signed a Common Christological Declaration...
from the 17th century up to the advent of modern times. Patriarch Mar DinkhaIV of the Assyrian Church of the East visited Turkey in 2012. Armenian Protestants...
doctrine, as it has traditionally been understood in the West. Patriarch Mar DinkhaIV repudiated the exonym Nestorian on the occasion of his accession in 1976...
Babylon of the Chaldeans and Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Mar DinkhaIV, current Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. Ganzibra...
Dialogue began with a meeting of the Assyrian Patriarch (Catholicos) Mar DinkhaIV and Pope John Paul II in 1984, and the patriarch's participation in the...
by DinkhaIV Hnanya, the first non-Patriarch of the Church of the East to be appointed not by hereditary succession since the 15th century. DinkhaIV was...
assassinated in San Jose, California, ending the 658-year old Shimun Line. DinkhaIV (17 October 1976 – 26 March 2015) – first canonically elected Patriarch...
and the Assyrian Church of the East signed by Pope John Paul II and Mar DinkhaIV underlines the Chalcedonian Christological formulation as the expression...
in Western texts, the term Nestorian was formally renounced in 1976 by DinkhaIV.[citation needed] As of September 13, 2021[update], Mar Awa III is the...
from c. 1336 to c. 1382 Shimun XIII Dinkha Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1681 to c. 1700 DinkhaIV, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church...