Eliya Abuna
Mar Eliya Abuna of Alqosh (1862–1955 in Kirkuk) was a bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East and Chaldean Catholic Church.
Life
Gewargis d'Beth Abuna came, as the last name says, from the house in which up to the first generation after unification of the "Patriarchate of the plains" with the Pope in Rome, the charge of Catholicos-Patriarch of the Chaldean Church based in Alqosh had been. He was educated at the Chaldean Catholic seminary in Mosul, and in 1887 or 1888 was ordained a priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church. Thereafter, he worked in various places in rural Alqosh and in 1908 returned to the urban community of Assyrian Catholics.
On May 2, 1909, he was consecrated in
The following year, in 1924, he left the Assyrian Church of the East and returned to the Chaldean Catholic Church, where he was appointed Patriarchal Vicar for the diocese Aqra; this service took less than two years. He spent the following three decades in Alqosh and elsewhere with his relatives until his repose in 1955.
Works
Eliya Abuna authored several works, most of them unpublished during his lifetime: a history of the Eastern Patriarchs in two volumes, first in modern Syriac language, and the second in
References
- ^ Coakley 1999, p. 68-69.
Sources
- Coakley, James F. (1996). "The Church of the East since 1914". The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 78 (3): 179–198. .
- Coakley, James F. (1999). "The Patriarchal List of the Church of the East". After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. pp. 65–84. ISBN 9789042907355.
- Coakley, James F. (2001). "Mar Elia Aboona and the History of the East Syrian Patriarchate". Oriens Christianus. 85: 119–138.
- ISBN 9783515057189.