Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil (also Simon XVIII Rouel or Rowil) served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1861 to 1903, succeeding his uncle Shimun XVII Abraham. He led the church from Qodshanis, in southeastern

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. In 1869, he received an invitation from the

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to attend the

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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 XXI Benyamin (1887– 3 March 1918) () served as the 117th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East. Life He was an ethnic Assyrian, born in 1887 in the village of Qochanis in the Hakkari Province, Ottoman Empire (modern ...

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Official site of the Assyrian Church of the East
1903 deaths Patriarchs of the Church of the East Assyrians from the Ottoman Empire Year of birth missing 19th-century bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East {{Bishop-stub