Nūrī, Athanasios Ignatios
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Nūrī, Athanasios Ignatios

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Nuri-Athanasios-Ignatios http://syriaca.org/bibl/414 405 Athanasios Ignatios Nūrī http://syriaca.org/person/662 [person] [Priest, teacher, and author.]

(1857–1947) [Syr. Cath.]

He was born in Mardin to Niʿmatallāh Nūrī and Katherine daughter of ʿAbdulmasīḥ Tarzi and was given the baptismal name Naṣrallāh. He studied at Sharfeh from 1873 then was appointed a teacher of Syriac there. He was ordained a priest in 1881 and named Ignatios. He served at Dayr al-Zor, then in other parishes. He was consecrated bp. of Baghdad in 1895 and named Athanasios. He traveled to India on a number of occasions and in 1913 was appointed as bp. for Cairo. Later he returned to Lebanon and became an assistant to Patr. Gabriel Tappuni . He had a stroke in 1944 and died at Sharfeh in 1947. His Syriac writings include a catechism, and a collection of poems titled in Arabic al-ʿIqd al-durrī ‘The twinkling/brilliant necklace’.

Sources

Abūna, Adab, 550–51.
Macuch, Geschichte, 436–37.

George A. Kiraz