Shimun XVII Abraham explained

Type:Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
Honorific-Prefix:Mar
Shimun XVII Abraham
His Holiness
Church:Assyrian Church of the East
Diocese:Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
See:Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Enthroned:1820
Ended:1861
Predecessor:Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan
Successor:Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil
Rank:Catholicos-Patriarch
Birth Date:1800/01[1]
Birth Place:Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire
Death Date:1861
Death Place:Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire
Nationality:Assyrian
Religion:Christian, Assyrian Church of the East
Residence:Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire

Mar Shimun XVII Abraham (also Simon XVII Abraham or Auraham, 1800/01– 1861) served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from c. 1820 to 1861.

He led the church from Qodshanis, (modern Konak, Hakkari) in southeastern Turkey, and tried to maintain good relations with local Ottoman authorities. In 1843, he was faced with renewed hostilities from Kurdish warlords, who attacked many Christian villages and killed 10,000 men, taking away women and children as captives, and forcing Patriarch to take refuge in Mosul. He is buried in the Church of Mar Shalita in Turkey.

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  1. Book: Badger, George Percy. The Nestorians and their Rituals. London. Joseph Masters. 1. 242. [1843] I cannot better describe the person of Mar Shimoon than by quoting the language of Dr. Grant: "The patriarch is thirty-eighty ears of age, [he was four years older when I first saw him,] ....