Mar

Shemʿon VI
Patriarch of All the East
ChurchChurch of the East
SeeSeleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed1504
Term ended5 August 1538
PredecessorEliya V
SuccessorShemon VII Ishoyahb
Personal details
Born15th century
Died5 August 1538
BuriedRabban Hormizd Monastery
ResidenceRabban Hormizd Monastery

Mar Shemʿon VI (also written Shimun VI) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1504 until his death on 5 August 1538.[1][2] Shemon is credited with revising the East Syriac Rite, replacing commemorations of traditional saints and martyrs with new ones, especially for those who had founded monasteries.[3] Following his death, he was succeeded as Patriarch by his brother Shemon VII Ishoyahb, who had been natar kursya (designated successor) throughout his reign; since the reign of Shemon IV the role of Patriarch had been passed hereditarily.[4] Shemon VI was buried alongside other Patriarchs of his era at Rabban Hormizd Monastery near Mosul, his residence while he had been Patriarch; his epitaph, recorded by Vosté, was inscribed by a priest named Israel.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Murre van den Berg 1999, p. 242.
  2. ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 196.
  3. ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 20.
  4. ^ Wilmshurst 2000, pp. 193–194.
  5. ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 400.

Bibliography

  • Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192.
  • Burleson, Samuel; Van Rompay, Lucas (2011). "List of Patriarchs of the Main Syriac Churches in the Middle East". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 481–491.
  • Murre van den Berg, Heleen H. L. (1999). "The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2 (2): 235–264. doi:10.31826/hug-2010-020119. S2CID 212688640.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2011). The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2019). "The patriarchs of the Church of the East". The Syriac World. London: Routledge. pp. 799–805. ISBN 9781138899018.
Church of the East titles Preceded byEliya V(1502–1504) Catholicos-Patriarch of the East (1504–1538) Succeeded byShemon VII Ishoyahb(1538–1558)


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