Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1553 to 1555
Mar
Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon Patriarch of Mosul in Eastern Syria[1] Patriarch of the Church of the Chaldeans of Mosul[2] Patriarch of the Eastern Assyrians[3]
Church
Church of the East/Chaldean Catholic Church
See
Amid of the Chaldeans
Installed
28 April 1553
Term ended
January 1555
Successor
Abdisho IV Maron
Personal details
Born
Yohannan Sulaqa
Circa 1510
Mosul
Died
January 1555 Amadiya
Residence
Amid, Ottoman Empire (now Diyarbakır, Turkey)
Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa (Classical Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܬܡܝܢܝܐ ܝܘܚܢܢ ܣܘܠܩܐ; Latin: Simeon Sulacha; also Yohannan d'Bēth Bello (Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܒܝܬ ܒܠܘ), John Soulaqa, Sulaka or Sulacha; circa 1510–1555) was the first Patriarch of what was to become the Shemʿon line of Chaldean Catholic Church, from 1553 to 1555, after it absorbed this Church of the East patriarchate into full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church.[4]
Yohannan Sulaqa's ascension as Patriarch was part of the 1552 schism in the Church of the East which resulted in the establishment of rival patriarchates and ultimately a permanent rift in the Church of the East. He was elected by those who opposed the hereditary patriarchal succession within the Eliya family, and he took an unprecedented step in the Church of the East: he traveled to Rome, accepted the Catholic creed and was consecrated as Patriarch in 1553, after at first failing in an attempt to join the Syriac Orthodox Church.[5][6][dubious – discuss]His reign did not last long though. Upon his return, due to strong opposition by the opposing Patriarch, Sulaqa was imprisoned by the Ottoman leader of Amadiya, tortured, and executed in January 1555.[7] He is considered a martyr of the Catholic Church.[8]
^Patriarcha de Mozal in Syria orientali (Anton Baumstark (editor), Oriens Christianus, IV:1, Rome and Leipzig 2004, p. 277)
^Assemani 1725, p. 661.
^Pietro Strozzi (1617). De dogmatibus chaldaeorum disputatio ad Patrem ... Adam Camerae Patriarchalis Babylonis ... ex typographia Bartholomaei Zannetti.
^Lavenant, René (1998). Symposium Syriacum VII: Uppsala University, Department of Asian and African Languages, 11-14 August 1996. Pontificio Istituto Orientale. ISBN 978-88-7210-319-7.
^Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 113.
^O’Mahony 2006, p. 521.
^Frazee 2006, p. 57.
^O’Mahony 2006, p. 527.
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