Samuel Giamil (1847–1917) ( ar, شموئيل جميل, Shmuʾel Jamīl) was an Assyrian scholar, polyglot and a

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monk. He joined the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd in 1866. In 1869, he accompanied his

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and Patriarch Mar Yawsep VI Audo to the

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. He was appointed a vicar for the diocese of ʿAqra for one year. He was elected a general Abbot for the Chaldean monks in 1881, 1887 and 1900. He authored numerous scholarly works in

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, and Italian, and translated a theological book written originally in Syriac by Adam ʿAqraya from Latin back into Syriac.

Biography

Samuel Giamil was born in Tel Keppe in Ninveh Governorate in

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to Shimʿun Jamīl and Farīdeh. Tel Keppe was a predominantly Assyrian Christian town until the

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occupation on 6 August 2014. In 1866 he joined the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The then Abbot of the monastery was Elishaʿ Tīshā. In 1869, he accompanied Patriarch Mar Yawsep VI Audo to the First Vatican Council. There he attended college and continued his studies there until 1879, when he was ordained a priest. As soon as he returned, he was sent out to serve in the Monastery of Saint Mary near Alqosh. There he established a school in 1880. In 1885 he was sent to the northern regions of Mesopotamia by Patriarch Eliya ʿAbū al-Yūnān as a Patriarchal envoy. For an year, he served as the Vicar of the Chaldean Diocese of ʿAqra. In 1892, he accompanied Toma Audo (died 1918), the Archbishop of the

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, to the mountain villages for the purpose of healing a schism in the church.

Selected publications

Monte Singar: Storia d’un popolo ignoto
(1900)
Symbolum Nestorianum anni p. Ch. n. 612
(1901)

(1902).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giamil, Samuel 1847 births 1917 deaths People of Iraqi-Assyrian descent Chaldean Catholics Assyrian Iraqi writers Syriacists Syriac writers