Mar
Mar, mar or MAR may refer to:
Culture
* Mar (title), or Mor, an honorific in Syriac
* Earl of Mar, an earldom in Scotland
* Mar., an abbreviation for March, the third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar
* Biblical abbreviation for the ...
Shemʿon V (died September 1502) was the
patriarch of the Church of the East
The patriarch of the Church of the East (also known as patriarch of the East, patriarch of Babylon, the catholicose of the East or the grand metropolitan of the East) is the patriarch, or leader and head bishop (sometimes referred to as Cath ...
from 1497 until his death. His short reign is poorly documented and it is possible that he was in fact an anti-patriarch.
Probably in 1499, Shemʿon V received a pair of messengers from the
Indian church requesting bishops. The patriarch consecrated Thomas and John, two monks of the
monastery of Mar Awgin, as bishops and dispatched them to India with letters of authentication. Thomas returned not long after with gifts from the Indian Christians, while John remained there as bishop.
Shemʿon's death is recorded in a letter from the Indian Christians. He was buried in the
monastery of Mar Awgin. It may be significant that he was not buried in the
monastery of Rabban Hormizd
Rabban Hormizd Monastery () is an important convent to the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church, founded about 640 AD by the Church of the East, carved out in the mountains about 2 miles from Alqosh, Iraq, 28 miles north o ...
, where his predecessor,
Shemʿon IV
Mar Shemʿon IV Basidi (died 20 February 1497) was the patriarch of the Church of the East in the last quarter of the 15th century. Traditionally his reign is said to have begun in 1437, but this results in an improbably long tenure and has been r ...
, and nearly all his successors were buried. His election may have represented a reaction to the policies of Shemʿon IV favouring his own family.
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