Mar Eliya XIV IIIAbulyonan (or ''Abolionan'') (1840 - June 27, 1894) was the patriarch of the

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from 1878 to 1894.

Life

Eliya Peter Abulyonan was born in 1840 in

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to an Assyrian family. He studied three years in the College of the Propaganda in

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and was ordained priest in 1865. On May 24, 1874, in

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, he was ordained bishop of Gazireh by Patriarch Joseph Audo. He was appointed Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church on July 26, 1878, and confirmed by the

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on February 28, 1879. During his patriarchate he spared no effort to improve the relations both with the

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and within the Chaldean Church, after the eventful reign of his predecessor Joseph Audo. He died in

at the age of 54 on June 27, 1894. The

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of his title is sometime XIV, sometime XIII, while among scholars Eliya XII is often preferred. This is due to the uncertain list of the patriarchal line of Alqosh in the 16th and 17th centuries.see H.Murre, , who for example uses XII, as D.Wilmshurst ()

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