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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts George A. Kiraz Lucas Van Rompay Piscataway, N.J. Gorgias Press for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute 2011 Copyright ©2011 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute ISBN: 978-1-59333-714-8
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ʿAbdulmasīḥ II https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Abdulmasih-II http://syriaca.org/bibl/18 9 http://syriaca.org/person/314 person Patr. of Antioch (1895-1903). (1854–1915) [Syr. Orth.]

Patr. of Antioch (1895–1903). Born in Qalʿat Mara, he joined Dayr al-Zaʿfarān in 1866, became a monk in 1853 1873 , was ordained priest in 1875, and consecrated bp. of Syria in 1886. In 1895, he was elected and consecrated patr., but later deposed in 1903. In 1912 he traveled to India and consecrated Baselios Pawlos as Maphrian for India; the consecration was not recognized by the Patr. patr. of Antioch. ʿAbdulmasīḥ returned to Mardin where he spent the last years of his life. He died in 1915 and was buried in Dayr al-Zaʿfarān.

Sources Dolabani, Patriarchen, 276–82.
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