Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil (also Simon XVIII Rouel or Rowil) served as the
Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1861 to 1903, succeeding his uncle
Shimun XVII Abraham
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 T ...
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He led the church from
Qodshanis, in southeastern
Turkey
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. In 1869, he received an invitation from the
Vatican
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to attend the
First Vatican Council as an observer, but he did not accept the invitation, and he also rejected other initiatives for the union with the Catholic Church. The Catholicos-Patriarch died on March 16, 1903 and was succeeded by
Shimun XIX Benyamin
Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin (1887– 3 March 1918) ( syr, ܡܪܝ ܒܢܝܡܝܢ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܥܣܪܝܢ ܘܩܕܡܝܐ) served as the 117th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East.
Life
He was born in 1887 in the village of Qochanis in the Hak ...
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See also
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List of Patriarchs of the Assyrian Church of the East
References
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External links
Official site of the Assyrian Church of the East
1903 deaths
Catholicos Patriarchs of the Assyrian Church of the East
Assyrians from the Ottoman Empire
Year of birth missing
19th-century bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East
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