Mar

Shemʿon V
Patriarch of All the East
ChurchChurch of the East
SeeSeleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed1497
Term endedSeptember 1502
PredecessorShemon IV
SuccessorEliya V
Personal details
Born15th century
DiedSeptember 1502
BuriedMonastery of Mar Awgin
Ordination history of
Shemon V
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Shemon V as principal consecrator
Mar Thomac. 1499
Mar Yohannonc. 1499

Mar Shemʿon V (died September 1502) was the patriarch of the Church of the East from 1497 until his death.[1][2][3] His short reign is poorly documented and it is possible that he was in fact an anti-patriarch.[4]

Probably in 1499, Shemʿon V received a pair of messengers from the Indian church requesting bishops. The patriarch consecrated Thomas and John, two monks of the monastery of Mar Awgin, as bishops and dispatched them to India with letters of authentication. Thomas returned not long after with gifts from the Indian Christians, while John remained there as bishop.[3]

Shemʿon's death is recorded in a letter from the Indian Christians.[5] He was buried in the monastery of Mar Awgin. It may be significant that he was not buried in the monastery of Rabban Hormizd, where his predecessor, Shemʿon IV, and nearly all his successors were buried. is election may have represented a reaction to the policies of Shemʿon IV favouring his own family.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Burleson & Van Rompay 2011.
  2. ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 20.
  3. ^ a b c Wilmshurst 2011, pp. 294–295.
  4. ^ Wilmshurst 2019, p. 799.
  5. ^ Carlson 2018, pp. 270–271.

Bibliography

  • Burleson, Samuel; Van Rompay, Lucas (2011). "List of Patriarchs: I. The Church of the East and its Uniate Continuations". In Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Gorgias Press.
  • Carlson, Thomas A. (2018). Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq. Cambridge University Press.
  • Carlson, Thomas A. (2019). "Syriac in a Diverse Middle East: From the Mongol Ilkhanate to Ottoman Dominance, 1286–1517". In Daniel King (ed.). The Syriac World. Routledge. pp. 718–730.
  • Wilmshurst, David J. (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters.
  • Wilmshurst, David J. (2011). The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. East and West Publishing.
  • Wilmshurst, David J. (2019). "The Patriarchs of the Church of the East". In Daniel King (ed.). The Syriac World. Routledge. pp. 799–805.
Church of the East titles Preceded byShemon IV(c.1450–1497) Catholicos-Patriarch of the East (1497–1502) Succeeded byEliya V(1502–1504)
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