This is a list of The
Chaldean Catholic Patriarchs of
Babylon, the leaders of the
Chaldean Catholic Church and one of
the
Patriarchs of the east of
the
Catholic Church.
The term
Chaldeans in this frame indicates the members of
the
Church of the East in
Full Communion with the
Holy See. This list continues from the
Patriarchs of Babylon of the
Church of the East that traces
itself back from
St. Thomas in the
1st century.
Catholicoi and Patriarchs of Babylon for the Chaldeans
The Shimun line
Coat of Arms of the Chaldean
Patriarchate
In
1553 Mar Yohannan Sulaqa, willing to separate from the Church of
the East's patriarchal See of Alqosh
, went to
Rome asking for his appointment as patriarch: he was consecrated in
St. Peter's
Basilica
on 9 April 1553.
Mar Shimun IX Dinkha was the last patriarch of the Shimun line
to be formally recognized by Rome. He reintroduced the
hereditary succession.
In 1692 Mar Shimun XIII Dinkha broke formally the Communion with Rome. Mar Shimun XIII
continued to be patriarch and his successors became leaders of the
body now known as Assyrian
Church of the East.
The Josephite line of Amid
The
Chaldean Patriarchs based in Amid
, now
Diyarbakır, was started by Joseph I who in 1681 separated from the
patriarchal See of Alqosh entering in Full Communion with
Rome
At the death of Augustine Hindi this See remained vacant and in
1830 merged with the Alqosh line in the person of Mar Yohannan
Hormizd, thus forming the modern Chaldean Catholic
Church.
The Alqosh/Mosul line
The
patriarchal See of Alqosh, known in
the 17th-18th century also as Eliya line, was the oldest and
largest patriarchal See of the Church of the East, the only one
existing patriarchal line before the 1553 split, and traces itself
back from St. Thomas in the
1st-century. In 1610 Mar
Eliyya VIII (1591-1617), Patriarch of the See of Alqosh,
entered communion with the Catholic Church. Eliyya VIII,
however died in 1617 and his successor quickly repudiated the
union.
In 1778, with the death of Eliya XII Denkha, the See of Alqosh
divided between Mar Eliyya XIII
Isho-Yab, not in communion with Rome, and his cousin Mar
Yohannan VIII Eliyya Hormizd, who professed to be Catholic.
In 1804, with the death of Eliyya Isho-Yab, Yohannan Hormizd
remained the only incumbent of this ancient See. He was
recognized patriarch by Rome only in 1830, after the merging of the
Chaldean see of Amid, thus forming the modern Chaldean Catholic
Church.
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