Eshai Shimun XXIII | |
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His Holiness | |
Native name | ܡܪܝ ܐܝܫܝ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܟܓ. |
Church | Assyrian Church of the East |
See | Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon |
Installed | 20 June 1920 |
Term ended | 5 November 1975 |
Predecessor | Mar Shimun XX Paulos (1918–1920) |
Successor | Mar Dinkha IV (1976–2015) |
Orders | |
Rank | Catholicos-Patriarch |
Personal details | |
Born | Eshai d'Mar Shimun 26 February 1908 |
Died | 6 November 1975 San Jose, California, United States | (aged 67)
Buried | Turlock Memorial Park |
Nationality | Assyrian |
Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܝܫܝ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܟܓ.; 26 February 1908 – 6 November 1975), sometimes known as Mar Eshai Shimun XXI, Mar Shimun XXIII Ishaya, Mar Shimun Ishai, or Simon Jesse,[1] served as the 119th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1920, when he was a youth, until his murder on 6 November 1975.