Shemon VI

Mar

Shemʿon VI

Patriarch of All the East
Church| Church of the East
See| Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed| 1504
Term ended| 5 August 1538
Predecessor| Eliya V
Successor| Shemon VII Ishoyahb
Personal details
Born| 15th century
Died| 5 August 1538
Buried| Rabban Hormizd Monastery
Residence| Rabban Hormizd Monastery

Mar Shemʿon 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.

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Preceded by

Eliya V
(1502-1504)

|  Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
(1504-1538)  | Succeeded by

Shemon VII Ishoyahb
(1538-1558)

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