List of Patriarchs: I. The Church of the East and its Uniate continuations
Main secondary sources:
- D. D. Benjamin, The patriarchs of the Church of the East (Translated from Assyrian into English by Y. A. Baaba) (2008). (includes a comparison of different existing lists)
- J. F. Coakley, ‘The patriarchal list of the Church of the East’, in After Bardaisan. Studies on continuity and change in Syriac Christianity in honour of Professor Han J. W. Drijvers, ed. G. J. Reinink and A. C. Klugkist (OLA 89; 1999), 65–83. (includes comparative discussion of two lists, by Yawsep d-Beth Qelayta [1924, reprint 1955] and by Iskhaq Rehana d-Beth Gadda [1965, reprint 1988])
- J. M. Fiey, Pour un Oriens christianus novus (Beiruter Texte und Studien 49; 1993), 20–41.
- H. L. Murre-van den Berg, ‘The patriarchs of the Church of the East from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries’, Hugoye 2.2 (1999).
- B. Spuler, ‘Die morgenländischen Kirchen’, in Handbuch der Orientalistik I.VIII.2 (1964), 209–11.
- H. Teule, Les Assyro-Chaldéens. Chrétiens d’Irak, d’Iran et de Turquie (Fils d’Abraham, 2008), 211–14.
- E. Tisserant, ‘L’Église nestorienne’, in Dictionnaire de théologie catholique XI.1 (1931), col. 260–63.
| ... | |
| Aḥadabu(h)y | c. 204 (?) |
| Shaḥlupa | 220 – 240 |
| ... | |
| Papa bar ʿAggai | d. between 327 and 335 |
| Shemʿon bar Ṣabbaʿe | d. 341 or 344 |
| Shahdost | |
| Barbaʿshmin | |
| Tomarsa/Tamuza | |
| Qayyoma | |
| Isḥaq | ca. 399/400 – 410/11 |
| Aḥai | 410 – 415 |
| Yahbalaha I | 415 – 420 |
| Maʿna | 420 |
| Farabokht | 421 |
| Dadishoʿ I | ca. 421 – 456 |
| Babowai | 457 – 484 |
| Aqaq | 484 – 495/6 |
| Babai | 497 – 502/3 |
| Shila | 503 – 523 |
| Narsai and Elishaʿ | 524 – 537 |
| Pawlos | 537 – 538/9 |
| Aba I | 540 – 552 |
| Yawsep I | 552 – 567 |
| Ḥazqiel I | 567 (or 570) – 581 |
| Ishoʿyahb I | ca. 581/2 – 595 |
| Sabrishoʿ I | 596 – 604 |
| Grigor I | 605 – ca. 610 |
| ... (enforced vacancy) | |
| Ishoʿyahb II of Gdala | 628 – 645 |
| Maremeh | 646 – 649 |
| Ishoʿyahb III of Adiabene | 649 – 659 |
| Gewargis I | ca. 659 – 680/1 |
| Yoḥannan I | 680/1 – 683 |
| ... | |
| Ḥenanishoʿ I | 685/6 – 699/700 |
| [Yoḥannan II | ca. 692 (?)] |
| ... | |
| Ṣlibhazkha | 713/4 – 727/8 |
| ... | |
| Petyon | 731 – 741 |
| Aba II of Kashkar | 741 – 751 |
| ... | |
| Surin | ca. 754 |
| Yaʿqob II | 754 – 773 |
| Ḥenanishoʿ II | 773 – 779/80 |
| Timotheos I | 779/80 – 823 |
| Ishoʿ bar Nun | 823 – 828 |
| Gewargis II | 828 – 829/30 |
| Sabrishoʿ II | 831 – 835 |
| Abraham II | 837 – 850 |
| ... | |
| Theodosios | 853 – 858 |
| Sargis I | 860 – 872 |
| (Israel of Kashkar) | d. 877 |
| Anosh/Enosh | 877 – 884 |
| Yoḥannan II bar Narsai | 884 – 891/2 |
| Yoḥannan III | 893 – 899 |
| Yoḥannan IV bar Abgare | 900 – 905 |
| Abraham III Abraza | 905 – 936/7 |
| Emmanuel I | 937 – 960 |
| Israel I | 961 |
| ... | |
| ʿAbdishoʿ I | 963 – 986 |
| Mari bar Ṭobi | 987 – 999 |
| Yoḥannan V | 1000 – 1011 |
| Yoḥannan VI Nasuk (bar Nazuk) | 1012 – 1020 |
| Ishoʿyahb IV bar Ḥazqiel | 1020 – 1025 |
| Eliya I of Ṭirhan | 1028 – 1049 |
| Yoḥannan VII bar Ṭargal (b. Ṭargala) | 1050 – 1057 |
| ... | |
| Sabrishoʿ III Zanbur | 1064 – 1072 |
| ... | |
| ʿAbdishoʿ b. al-ʿĀrid | 1074 – 1090 |
| ... | |
| Makkika I | 1092 – 1109/10 |
| Eliya II bar Molki (bar Maqli) | 1111 – 1132 |
| Barṣawma I | 1134 – 1136 |
| ... | |
| ʿAbdishoʿ III bar Molki (b. Maqli) | 1139 – 1148 |
| Ishoʿyahb V Baladi | 1149 – 1175 |
| Eliya III Abū Ḥalīm | 1176 – 1190 |
| Yahbalaha II | 1190 – 1222 |
| Sabrishoʿ IV bar Qayyoma | 1222 – 1225 |
| Sabhrishoʿ V b. al-Masīḥī | 1226 – 1256 |
| Makkika II | 1257 – 1265 |
| Denḥa I | 1265 – 1281 |
| Yahbalaha III | 1281 – 1317 |
| Timotheos II | 1318 – 1332 (?) |
| Denḥa II | 1336/7 – 1381/2 1 |
| Shemʿon II | |
| Shemʿon III | |
| Eliya IV | ca. 1437 |
| Shemʿon IV Basidi | 1437 – 1497 |
| Shemʿon V | 1497 – 1502 |
| Eliya V | 1502 – 1504 |
| Shemʿon VI | 1504 – 1538 |
| Shemʿon VII bar Mama | 1538/9 – 1558 |
The Patriarchate of Rabban Hormizd (successors of Bar Mama, 1551–1804) 2
| Eliya VI bar Gewargis | 1558/9 – 1591 |
| Eliya VII | 1591 – 1617 |
| Eliya VIII Shemʿon | 1617 – 1660 |
| Eliya IX Yoḥannan Marawgin | 1660 – 1700 |
| Eliya X Marawgin | 1700 – 1722 |
| Eliya XI Denḥa | 1722 – 1778 |
| Eliya XII Ishoʿyahb | 1778 – 1804 |
First Attempt at Union with Rome (1551-1692) 3
| Yoḥannan Sullaqa (Shemʿon VIII) | 1553 – 1555 |
| ʿAbdishoʿ IV of Gazarta | 1555 – 1567 (1570) |
| … | |
| Shemʿon (Yahbalaha) | 1572 – 1576 (?) |
| Yahbalaha Shemʿon | 1577 – 1579/80 |
| Shemʿon IX Denḥa | 1580 – 1600 |
| Shemʿon X | 1600 – 1638 (1625?) |
| Shemʿon XI | 1638 – 1656 |
| Shemʿon XII Yoḥannan | 1656 – 1662 |
| Shemʿon XIII Denḥa | 1662 – 1700 |
Second Attempt at Union with Rome: The Patriarchate of Amid/Diyarbakir (1681 – 1828)
| Yawsep I | 1681 – 1696 |
| Yawsep II (Ṣliba d-Beth Maʿruf) | 1696 – 1713 |
| Yawsep III Timotheos Marawgin | 1714 – 1757 |
| Yawsep IV Lazaros Hindi | 1759 – 1781 (1796) |
| Yawsep V Augustin Hindi | 1781 (1802) – 1828 |
The Uniate Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon (Mosul, Baghdad, 1830 to date)
| Yoḥannan VIII (Eliya) Hormizd | 1830 – 1838 |
| Nicholas Eshaʿya (Zayʿa) | 1838 – 1847 |
| Yawsep VI Audo | 1848 – 1878 |
| Eliya XIV (XII, XIII) Abū al-Yūnan | 1879 – 1894 |
| ʿAbdishoʿ V Khayyāṭ | 1895 – 1898 |
| Yawsep VI Emmanuel Toma | 1900 – 1947 |
| Yawsep VII Ghanīma | 1947 – 1958 |
| Pawlos II Cheikho | 1958 – 1989 |
| Raphael I Bidawid | 1989 – 2003 |
| Emmanuel III Delly | 2003 to date |
The Assyrian Church of the East (line of Qudshanis and its continuation, 1700 to date)
| Shemʿon XIV Shlemon | 1700 – 1740 |
| Shemʿon XV Michael Mukhtas | 1740 – 1780 |
| Shemʿon XVI Yoḥannan | 1780 – 1820 |
| Shemʿon XVII Abraham | 1820 – 1860 |
| Shemʿon XVIII Rubel | 1860 – 1903 |
| Shemʿon XIX Benyamin | 1903 – 1918 |
| Shemʿon XX Pawlos (Polos Shemʿon) | 1918 – 1920 |
| Shemʿon XXI Eshai (Eshai Shemʿon) | 1920 – 1975 4 |
| Denḥa IV | 1976 to date |
The Ancient Church of the East ( 1968 to date )
| Toma Darmo | 1968 |
| Addai II | 1972 to date |
1 For these dates, see S. P. Brock, ‘A Syriac list of Mongol rulers’, in Der Christliche Orient und seine Umwelt. Gesammelte Studien zu Ehren Jürgen Tubachs anläßlich seines 60. Geburtstags, ed. S. G. Vashalomidze and L. Greisiger (2007), 331 and 335, with notes 23 and 24.
2 For a recent discussion of the patriarchs/catholicoi during the five centuries of division within the Church of the East, see Murre-van den Berg, ‘The patriarchs of the Church of the East’. For the confusion that has existed in scholarship concerning the dates and numbering of Eliya VI and VII, see S. P. Brock, ‘East Syriac pilgrims to Jerusalem in the early Ottoman period’, ARAM 18–19 (2006–2007), Appendix (198–201). For the period between the mid-16th and the early 19th cent., see also A. Lampart, Ein Märtyrer der Union mit Rom. Joseph I. 1681–1696. Patriarch der Chaldäer (1966), esp. 365–66.
3 See also Teule, Les Assyro-Chaldéens, 213. Relations between this line of catholicoi and the Church of Rome became attenuated and were all but nonexistent after 1600.
4 In 1940 Mar Eshai Shemʿon moved to the United States and began to adopt the style ‘Mar Shemʿon XXIII’. See Coakley, ‘The patriarchal list of the Church of the East’, 66–67.