Denha
Denha (Syriac script ܕܢܚܐ, ''denḥa'') is the classical Syriac word for an epiphany, and may refer to: Epiphany *Epiphany (holiday) * Epiphany season People Denha and its variant Dinkha may refer to: *Denha I of Tikrit, Syriac Orthodox Grand Metropolitan of the East from 649 to 659 *Denha I, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1265 to 1281 * Denha II, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1336 to 1382 *Shimun XIII Dinkha Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1681 to 1700 *Dinkha IV Mar Dinkha IV (Classical Syriac: and ar, مار دنخا الرابع), born Dinkha Khanania (15 September 1935 – 26 March 2015) was an Eastern Christian prelate who served as the 120th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the ...

Denha II
Mar Denha II (also written Dinkha II) was patriarch of the Church of the East from 1336/7 to 1381/2. Although no history of his reign has survived, references in a number of Nestorian, Jacobite and Moslem sources provide some details of his patriarchate. Order of succession and reign dates According to a list of Nestorian patriarchs preserved in a manuscript of Shlemun of Akhlat's ''Book of the Bee'', Denha II succeeded the patriarch Timothy II. Shlemun's original list terminated with the patriarch Sabrishoʿ IV, who was consecrated in 1222, but this list was later brought up to date by a fifteenth-century scribe, who added a list of thirteenth-, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century patriarchs. According to this list, Yahballaha III (1281–1318) was succeeded by the patriarchs Timothy, Denha, Shemʿon, Eliya, and 'Shemʿon of our days'. This is the only source that specifically places Denha in direct succession to Timothy, but there is no reason to doubt its evidence. Acco ...
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