Eliya X Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Mar
Eliya X
Church:Church of the East
Patriarch Of:Patriarch of the Church of the East
Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
Residence:Rabban Hormizd Monastery
Enthroned:1700
Ended:1722
Predecessor:Eliya IX
Successor:Eliya XI
Death Date:14 December 1722

Eliya X (syr|ܐܠܝܐ / Elīyā, d. 14 December 1722) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1700 to 1722, with residence in Rabban Hormizd Monastery, near Alqosh, in modern Iraq. During his tenure, traditional ties of the Patriarchate with the remaining Christian community of the East Syriac Rite in India were re-established, and in 1708 bishop Mar Gabriel (d. 1733) was sent there by the Patriarch, succeeding upon arrival to the Malabar Coast to revive the local East Syriac Christian community.

In older historiography, he was designated as Eliya X, but later renumbered as Eliya "XI" by some authors. After the resolution of several chronological questions, he was designated again as Eliya X, and that numeration is accepted in recent scholarly works.

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