Eliya II of Seleucia-Ctesiphon explained

Honorific-Prefix:Mar
Eliya II
Birth Name:Eliya bar Moqli
Church:Church of the East
See:Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Patriarch Of:Patriarch of the Church of the East
Patriarch of All the East
Enthroned:1111
Ended:1132
Predecessor:Makkikha I
Successor:Bar Sawma
Death Date:1132

Eliya II Bar Moqli (Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1111 to 1132.

Sources

Brief accounts of Eliya's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (floruit 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the fourteenth-century Nestorian writers Amr and Sliba. A more substantial account is given by the twelfth-century historian Mari.

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