Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni

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Bishop)
by Ephrem II Rahmani
Created cardinal16 December 1935
by Pope Pius XI
RankCardinal-Priest (1935-1965);
Cardinal-Bishop Patriarch (1965-1968)
Personal details
Born
Abdul-Ahad Dawood Tappouni

3 November 1879
Mosul, Iraq
DiedJanuary 29, 1968(1968-01-29) (aged 88)
Beirut, Lebanon

Mar Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni (

cardinalate
in 1935.

Biography

Born Abdul-Ahad Dawood Tappouni,

priesthood on 3 November 1902, taking the name Dominic. After teaching at the same seminary until 1908, Tappouni was then made Secretary of the Apostolic Delegation to Mesopotamia
.

On 12 September 1912, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Danaba and the Chaldean Apostolic Vicar of Mardin. Tappouni was reassigned as Titular Bishop of Batnae dei Siri on 19 January 1913, which was the same date he received his

slaughter Christians. Many people attempted to interfere and negotiate for Tappouni's release, including Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria
.

After his release, he was named Archbishop of Aleppo by Patriarch Rahmani on 24 February 1921. On 24 June Tappouni was unanimously chosen by the Syrian

Ss. XII Apostoli in the consistory of 16 December 1935. Tappouni, who took the name Ignatius Gabriel, was the first Eastern Rite prelate to enter the College of Cardinals since 1895.[a]

Around 1945, he was sentenced to death by one of the axis countries, but the sentence was never carried out as the axis government was abolished because of the end of world war 2.

Tappouni was one of the

1963 conclave, Tappouni resigned his cardinal's titular church (Ss. XII Apostoli) on 11 February 1965 when he was raised to the rank of cardinal bishop pursuant to Pope Paul VI's motu propio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum issued on that day which decreed that Eastern Patriarchs elevated to the College of Cardinals would be cardinal bishops, ranked after the suburbicarian cardinal-bishops, and maintain their patriarchal sees and not receive any assignment to associate them with the Diocese of Rome.[1]

He died in Lebanon at age 88, and is buried at the Syriac Catholic Monastery of Charfeh in Daraoun, Lebanon.

Theologically conservative, Tappouni urged Cardinal Giuseppe Siri to put forward his candidacy at the conclave of 1963.[citation needed]

Notes

  1. Sylvester Sembratovych, archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who was made Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio by Pope Leo XIII
    on 29 November 1895.

References

  1. ^ Pope Paul VI (11 February 1965). "Ad purpuratorum Patrum Collegium" (in Italian). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Retrieved 27 October 2017.

Literature

  • The Journal of The Syriac Catholic Parish of Aleppo.
  • Pham, John-Peter. "Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession". Oxford University Press, 2007.

External links

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Cardinal-Priest of Ss. XX Apostoli
1935-1965 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrian Catholic Church

1929-1968 		Succeeded by
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