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Yaroo Michael Neesan
Yaroo Michael Neesan (1853 – September 24, 1937), also known as Jared Michael Neesan, was an Assyrian-American priest of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was among the first Assyrians to emigrate to the United States.Coakley, J. F. (1993). "Yaroo M. Neesan: 'A missionary to his own people'". ''Aram'' 5: 87-100. Biography Neesan was born in 1853 in the Urmia region of Persia. In 1881, he emigrated to the United States to study theology. Neesan married Gulnaz, with whom he had a daughter named Beatrice (born 1888). She was engaged to Shimun XIX Benyamin, Patriarch Mar Benyamin Shimun's brother Hormizd. However, in early 1915, Hormizd was shot by Turks in Istanbul shortly before the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915. Beatrice was said to have died of shock from the shooting of Bishop Mar Dinkha in February 1915 before the eyes of the Neesan family, although Coakley (1993) attributed her death to typhoid fever. Neesan's wife Gulnaz died 15 days afterwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrian Church Of The East
The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, is an Eastern Christianity, Eastern Syriac Christianity, Syriac Christian denomination that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East. It belongs to the eastern branch of Syriac Christianity, and employs the Liturgy of Addai and Mari, Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari belonging to the East Syriac Rite. Its main Sacred language, liturgical language is Syriac language, Classical Syriac, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic languages, Eastern Aramaic. Officially known as the Church of the East until 1976, it was then renamed the Assyrian Church of the East, with its patriarchate remaining hereditary until the death of Shimun XXIII Eshai, Shimun XXI Eshai in 1975. The Assyrian Church of the East is officially headquartered in the city of Erbil, in northern Iraq; its original a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
