Eliya XII

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Eliya XII
Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
ChurchChurch of the East
Installed1778
Term ended1804
PredecessorEliya XI
SuccessorShimun XVI Yohannan (as the Patriarch of Assyrian Church of the East)
Yohannan VIII Hormizd (as Patriarch belonging to the Elia line based in the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd)
Personal details
Died1804
ResidenceRabban Hormizd Monastery
The ancient Rabban Hormizd Monastery, former residence of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East

Eliya XII (Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ / Elīyā, d. 1804) was Patriarch of the Church of the East, from 1778 to 1804, with formal residence in Rabban Hormizd Monastery, near Alqosh, in modern Iraq. His birth name was Ishoyahb, and he was the elder son of priest Abraham, who was brother of the previous patriarch Eliya XI (1722-1778). In 1744, Ishoyahb was consecrated as metropolitan, and designated as presumptive successor (natar kursya) by his paternal uncle, patriarch Eliya XI, who died in 1778, and Ishoyahb succeeded him, as patriarch Eliya XII. His tenure was marked by a prolonged rivalry with his pro-Catholic cousin Yohannan Hormizd, who also claimed the patriarchal throne. In 1804, Eliya XII died and was buried in the Rabban Hormizd Monastery, as the last patriarch of the senior Eliya line.[1][2][3][4]

In older historiography, he was designated as Eliya XII,[5] but later renumbered as Eliya "XIII" by some authors.[6][7][8][9] After the resolution of several chronological questions, he was designated again as Eliya XII,[10][11][1] and that numeration is generally accepted in recent scholarly works,[12][4][13][14][15][16][17][18] with some exceptions.[19][20]

  1. ^ a b Murre van den Berg 1999a, p. 248.
  2. ^ Murre van den Berg 1999b, p. 34-35.
  3. ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 29-30, 125, 128-129, 196, 250-251, 259.
  4. ^ a b Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 120, 174.
  5. ^ Malech & Malech 1910, p. 321.
  6. ^ Tisserant 1931, p. 261-263.
  7. ^ Spuler 1961, p. 165.
  8. ^ Hartmann 1980, p. 64.
  9. ^ Fiey 1993, p. 39.
  10. ^ Lampart 1966, p. 49, 64.
  11. ^ Macomber 1969, p. 263-273.
  12. ^ Baum & Winkler 2000, p. 109, 152.
  13. ^ Baum 2004, p. 235.
  14. ^ Baumer 2005, p. 250, 312.
  15. ^ Murre van den Berg 2006, p. 527.
  16. ^ Hage 2007, p. 400, 473.
  17. ^ Burleson & Rompay 2011, p. 481-491.
  18. ^ Jakob 2014, p. 101.
  19. ^ Wilmshurst 2011, p. 477.
  20. ^ Wilmshurst 2019, p. 804.