Shemon VI

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Mar

Shem[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)on 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 Shem[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)on 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

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  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

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  • 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 by
Eliya V
(1502–1504)
Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
(1504–1538)
Succeeded by
Shemon VII Ishoyahb
(1538–1558)



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