Shimun XVI Yohannan
His Holiness
ChurchChurch of the East (modern Assyrian Church of the East)
DiocesePatriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
SeeHoly Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed1780 (Patriarch of the Shem'on line)

1804 (Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East)
Term ended1820
PredecessorShimun XV Maqdassi Mikhail as Patriarch of the Shem'on line

Eliya XII as Patriarch of the Church of the East (d. 1804)
SuccessorShimun XVII Abraham
Orders
RankCatholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born
Died1820
Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire
NationalityAssyrian (Ottoman)
DenominationEastern Christian, Church of the East
ResidenceQodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire

Mar Shimun XVI Yohannan (also Shemon XVI Yohannan) was Patriarch of the Shem'on line (Qodshanis) of the Church of the East, from 1780. In 1804, he became the sole Patriarch among traditionalist Christians of the East Syriac Rite, because the rival Patriarch Eliya XII (1778-1804) of the Eliya line died without successor. Shimun XVI remained patriarch until his death in 1820.[1][2][3]

Biography

Until 1804, there were two rival patriarchal lines among traditionalist Christians of the Church of the East, senior Eliya line in Alqosh and junior Shemon line in Qochanis. The last patriarch of the senior line, Eliya XII, died in 1804 and was buried in the ancient Rabban Hormizd Monastery.[4] His branch decided not to elect a new patriarch, thus ending that line, and eventually enabling the remaining patriarch Shimun XVI of the junior line to become the sole primate of the entire traditionalist community (modern Assyrian Church of the East).[5][6][7][8][9]

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