List of patriarchs of the Church of the East

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Eastern Christianity The Patriarch of the Church of the East was the head of the Church of the East. According to tradition, the Church of the East was founded by the apostles Thomas, Addai, Aggai, and Mari in the first century AD.Template:Sfnmp At the end of the third century or beginning of the fourth century AD, Papa bar Aggai, as bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, was recognised as the first supreme head of the Church of the East, according to the Chronicle of Arbela.Template:Sfnmp The bishopric of Seleucia-Ctesiphon was elevated to the status of metropolitan see at the Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410 and then granted the title of catholicos at the Synod of 424.Template:Sfnmp The title of patriarch was also adopted prior to the end of the fifth century.Template:Sfnmp

In the Schism of 1552, the Church of the East was split into two separate lines of patriarchs following the election of Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa as patriarch and his establishment of union with the Catholic Church in 1553.Template:Sfnmp However, the Shimun line formally dissolved the union with the Catholic Church in 1672 and thus a third line of patriarchs in union with Rome was formed with the appointment of Joseph I as patriarch in 1681.Template:Sfnp With the end of the Josephite line in 1828 and the appointment of Yohannan VIII Hormizd as patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1830, the Shimun line became the sole remaining line not in communion with the Catholic Church.Template:Sfnmp A schism erupted again in 1968 upon the election of Thoma Darmo as patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East, whilst the Church of the East was officially renamed the Assyrian Church of the East in 1976.Template:Sfnmp

List of patriarchs

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Unless otherwise stated, all information is from the list provided in The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity, as noted in the bibliography below.Template:Sfnp

Bishops of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from Template:Circa to 399

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vacant (371–377)

Metropolitans of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 399 to 421

Patriarchs of the Church of the East from 421 to 1558

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Yohannan the Leper (691–693)Template:Efn
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vacant (751–753/754)
Surin (753)Template:Efn
vacant (835–837)
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vacant (858–860)
vacant (872–877)
Israel of Kashkar (877)Template:Efn
vacant (961–963)
vacant (1025–1028)
vacant (1057–1064)
vacant (1072–1074)
vacant (1090–1092)
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vacant (1136–1139)
vacant (1224–1226)
vacant (1332–1336/1337)
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Patriarchs of the Church of the East from 1558 to 1861

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Patriarchs of the Church of the East from 1861 to present

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Ancient Church of the East

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See also

References

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Bibliography

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