Yohannan VIII Hormizd

Yohannan VIII Hormizd
Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
Church	Chaldean Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Babylon
See	Babylon of the Chaldeans
Installed	5 July 1830
Term ended	1838
Predecessor	Joseph IV as Patriarch of Chaldean Catholic Church. Eliya XII as Patriarch belonging to the Eliya line based in the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd.
Successor	Nicholas I Zayʿa
Orders
Consecration	22 May 1776 (Bishop) by Patriarch Eliya XI
Personal details
Born	Yohannan Hormizd 1760 Alqosh
Died	16 August 1838 (aged 77–78) Mosul
Residence	Iraq, Ottoman Empire

Yohannan VIII Hormizd (often referred to by European missionaries as John Hormez or Hanna Hormizd) (1760–1838) was the last hereditary patriarch of the Eliya line of the Church of the East and the first patriarch of a united Chaldean Church. After the death of his uncle Eliya XI in 1778, he claimed the patriarchal throne in 1780 and made a Catholic profession of faith. In 1783, he was recognized by the Vatican as patriarchal administrator and archbishop of Mosul. His career as patriarchal administrator was controversial, and was marked by a series of conflicts with his own bishops and also with the Vatican. Suspended from his functions in 1812 and again in 1818, he was reinstated by the Vatican in 1828. In 1830, following the death of the Amid patriarchal administrator Augustine Hindi, he was recognised by the Vatican as patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and the Mosul and Amid patriarchates were united under his leadership. This event marked the birth of the since unbroken patriarchal line of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Yohannan Hormizd died in 1838 and his successor Nicholas I Zayʿa was chosen by the Vatican, ending the centuries-old practice of hereditary succession.^[1][2]