Shimun XVII Abraham

Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East

Mar Shimun XVII Abraham
His Holiness

Church	Assyrian Church of the East
Diocese	Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
See	Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	1820
Term ended	1861
Predecessor	Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan
Successor	Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil
Orders
Rank	Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born	1800/01^[1] Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire
Died	1861 Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Assyrian
Denomination	Christian, Assyrian Church of the East
Residence	Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire

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Mar Shimun XVII Abraham (also Simon XVII Abraham or Auraham, 1800/01– 1861) served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from c. 1820 to 1861.^[2]

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.^[3] He is buried in the Church of Mar Shalita in Turkey.

References

^ Badger, George Percy. The Nestorians and their Rituals. Vol. 1. London: Joseph Masters. p. 242. [1843] I cannot better describe the person of Mar Shimoon than by quoting the language of Dr. Grant: "The patriarch is thirty-eighty ears [sic] of age, [he was four years older when I first saw him,] ...
^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 127, 175.
^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 33, 212.

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