Qiryo, Yuḥanna
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Qiryo, Yuḥanna

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Qiryo-Yuhanna http://syriaca.org/bibl/454 445 Yuḥanna Qiryo http://syriaca.org/person/696 [person] [Bishop and translator.]

(1874–1946) [Chald.]

He was born in Alqosh . He studied at the Patriarchal Seminary and in 1899 was ordained as its priest. In 1906 he served in Mosul . In 1936 he was consecrated a chorepiscopos and in 1939 served in Ārādn until 1942 when he was consecrated bishop for al-ʿAmadiyya. He died in 1946 and was buried in Karamlish .

He translated from Italian into Syriac a number of books including a book on Alphonse Liguori (Abūna gives the title in Arabic faḍāʾil al-qiddīs Alphonse Liguori ‘Virtues of St. Alfonso Liguori’), a biography of St. Jirardis Magla (Mosul, 1932), a two-volume book also by Liguori (Abūna gives the title in Arabic hidāyat al-nufūs ‘Guidance of the souls’) (vol. 1 Mosul, 1934; vol. 2 ms.).

Sources

Abūna, Adab, 507–8.
Macuch, Geschichte, 412–3.

George A. Kiraz