Bello, Estipān
https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bello-Estipan
http://syriaca.org/bibl/103
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Estipān Bello
http://syriaca.org/person/382
person
Author and bishop.
(1910–1989) [Chald.]
He was born in [
Alqosh
](https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Alqosh) of Jūnā Mīkhā Ballo and Teresa Mīkhā Sāko and given the
baptismal name ʿAbd al-Aḥad (he is somewhat related to the family of Patr.
[
Yoḥannan Sullaqa
](https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yohannan-Sullaqa)). He became a monk in 1924, and in 1927 joined
the [
Seminary of
St. John
](https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Seminary-of-St-John) in [
Mosul
](https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Mosul) where he was
ordained a priest in 1934. He studied in Rome from 1935 until 1940, the year
of his return to Iraq. In 1958 he became a vicar for [
Aleppo
](https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Aleppo), and in 1960
was consecrated a bp. for Syria. He died in Rome in 1989 and was buried in
Iraq. In addition to his major study La Congrégation de S.
Hormisdas et l’Église chaldéenne dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle (OCA 122; 1939), he translated
from Italian into Syriac a small book titled l-ʾappay
ʾurḥā da-gmirā (Mosul, 1957). He also wrote a chronicle titled ṭebe yawmāye (ms.) and a book titled ktābā d-purrāse (ms.).
Sources
Abūna, Adab, 514–5.
Macuch, Geschichte, 416.
George A.
Kiraz