Shimun XX Paulos
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Baquba, Ottoman Empire) served as the 118th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.
After his brother, Catholicos-Patriarch
Shemsdin (the metropolitan's designated successor), and Mar Zaya Sargis of Jilu
.
On 20 August 1918, for fear of persecution from the
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
. He died on 27 April 1920 and buried on 9 May 1920 in the Armenian cemetery in Baghdad.
The episcopacy of the Autocephalous Assyrian Church of the East at this time consisted only of four bishops: Mar Yosip Khnanisho, Mar Zaya Sargis of
Abimalek Timothy
(South India).
Mar Shimun XX Paulos' successor was
Shimun XXI Eshai
.
See also
References
- ^ Coakley, The Church of the East and the Church of England, 340
Sources
- ISBN 9781134430192.
- Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris. ISBN 9781845111151.
- Coakley, James F. (1992). The Church of the East and the Church of England: A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198267447.
- Coakley, James F. (1996). "The Church of the East since 1914". The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 78 (3): 179–198. .
- Rudolf Macuch:History of the late and neusyrischen literature. De Gruyter, Berlin 1976, 253ff. ISBN 3-11-005959-2
- Austin: The Baqubah Refugee Camp. An Account of Work on behalf of the Persecuted Assyrian Christians, The Faith Press, London 1920
- David Wilmshurst:The Ecclesiastical Organization of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 582 / Subs. 104). Peeters, Leuven 2000, 367th ISBN 90-429-0876-9.