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THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION of the FCGM Synod of the Hebrew Church of the East in America with Some Names in the Context of History THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION of the FCGM Synod of the Hebrew Church of the East in America With Some Names in the Context of History + + +OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP [THE MOST REVEREND SAM T. LEIGH, P.TH.D.] + + +AND THE EXECUTIVE BISHOP [THE RIGHT REVEREND DAVID L. LATHROP, D.B.S.] FROM THE FOUNDER: OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, MESSIAH OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD St. Peter, who wrote his Catholic Epistle from Babylon [Shimun Keepa I Peter, 1:1 and 5.13] St. Thomas, who after establishing the Church in Edessa, King Agbar, all of Mesopotamia, Persia and their environment, went to India HEBREW SUCCESSION Y [Tooma Shlikha] a c Thomas, the Twin arrived in India o b Bar Tulmay , Addi ]or Addai]Shlikha R e [St. Jude Thaddeus] l a Agai, Disciple of Addai, t from the 70 Disciples» i v Mari, Disciple of Addai e Reputed arrival of first missionaries to China o f Abris, Relative of the Virgin Mary Y Gospel carried to the Gilanians and a the lands of Gog and Magog s i Oraham I, of Kashkar p 1 [Joseph] the Carpenter DATE Pantaenus visited India 33-73 Edid M'shikha 49-52 Akhu d'Awu 33 33-45 45-81 48-81 64 90-107 120-140 130-152 170-190 185 191-203 205-220 2 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE Shakhulpa of Kashkar 224-244 Papa Bar Gaggai 247-326 First Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon Probable date of Asoka inscriptions and edicts 300 Arnobius speaks of the Chinese as united in the faith of Christ 303 Ephraim born 303 Christianity of Byzantium, official in the Roman Empire 313 Council of Nicea, Ephraem wrote Nicene Creed 325 Shimun Bar Sabbai 328-341 First Persian Persecution — Sapor II 339-379 Knai Thomas arrives to Malabar Coast 345 Shahdust 345-347 Bar Bashmin 350-358 Theophilus the Indian, from the Island of Divu, consecrated Bishop 356 Tumarsa 383-393 Qaiyuma 393-399 Eskhaq 399-411 Akhkhi 411-415 Unalaha I 415-420 Bahram V — Second Persian persecution 420 Maana 420- Qarahukht 421- Dadishu 421-456 Title of Patriarch first conferred on Catholicos of Seleucia 424 3 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE Yezdegerd II Third Persian persecution 448 The Massacre of Kirkuk Bawai or Bahu 457-484 Aqaq 484-496 Bawai 496-502 Sheela 505-523 Narsa Dual Patriarchate 524-535 Visit of Cosmas 523 Elisha 524-538 Polos 539-540 Yosip 552-567 Khazqiyil 570-581 Eshuyow I, Arzunaya 581-595 Horoscope of Krishna, August 7 600 Sorishu I Garmaqaya 596-604 Greghar, Partaya 605-606 Taisin(Judea) Church comes to the Tang Dynasty. China 618-45 Shuyow II [Edalaya or Arab] 626-644 Metropolitans appointed to Samarkand, India, and China 628-643 Mar Immeih 647-650 Eshuyow III, Kdayawaya 650-660 GewargisI 681-684 Yokhannan I, Bar Marta 684-692 4 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE Khnaishu I 686-693 Yokhannan II, Garba 693-694 Sliwazkha 714-728 Perhyon 731-740 Visit of Christian Physician to Japan and reported conversion of Empress 724-748 Awa 741-751 Surin 752-754 Yacob II 754-773 Khnanishu II 774-778 [China Monument erected in his reign] Christianity dominant religion in China 780 Erection of Nestorian monument in China 781 Timotheus 780-820 Eshu-barnon 820-824 Copper plate charters of Christians of St. Thomas 822 Gewargis II 825-832 Soreshu II 832-836 Edict of suppression of Christians in China 845 Teadasis [of Theodoros] 850-852 Sargis, Suwaya 860-872 Annush d"beth Garma 873-884 Yokhannan III, Bar Narsay 884-892 Yokhannan IV, 892-898 [Nephew ofTheodoros] Yokhannan V, Bar Ogare 900-905 5 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE Oraham III, Abraza 906-937 Ammanaoel I 937-949 Esrail Karkhaua 961 -962 Odishu Garmaqaya 963-936 Mari Aturaya 967-1000 Yokhannan VI [Yaoannis] 1001-1012 First Muhammadan invasion of India 1001 Conversion of Keraits 1007 Yokhannan VII, [BarNazuk] 1013-1022 Eshyow IV 1023-1027 Elia I [Terhan] 1028-1049 Yokhannan VII [Bar Tragala] 1049-1057 Soreshu III [Bar Zanhur] 1057-1072 Odishu II [Bar Ars] Aturaya 1072-1090 Makkikha I [Bar Shlemon] 1092-1109 Elia II [Bar Maqli] 1111-1132 Bar Soma [of Suwa] 1133-1135 Bar Gabbara 1135-1136 Legend of Prester John 1143 Odishu III [Nephew of Elia II] 1133-1147 Eshuyow V [From Beth Zodai, Baladaya 1023-1027 Elia III [Abukhalim] 1148-1175 6 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE Rise of power of Jenghiz Khan 1206 Yoalaha II [Bar Qaiyama] 1191-1222 Patna, India, a metropolitan See 1222 Sorishu IV 1222-1226 Sorishu V [From Baghdad] 1226-1256 Kubla Khan first emperor of a United China 1259 Makkikha II 1257-1265 Rise of empire of Vijayanagar 1259 Dinka I [Arbilyay, i.e., from Arbil] 1265-1281 Yoalaha III [Bar Turkaye, i.e., Turkish by race] 1281-1318 Timotheus II [Arbilaya, i.e., from Arbil] 1318-1328 Extirpation of Christianity in China under the Ming Dynasty 1369 Dinkha II 1329-1359 Dinkha III 1359-1368 Shimun III 1369-1392 Tamerlane's domination 1366-1405 Sack of Delhi by Tamerlane 1398 Shimun IV 1403-1407 Elia III 1407-1420 Shimun V 1420-1447 Shimun VI 1448-1490 EliaV 1491-1504 7 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE Portuguese arrive in India 1500 Appointment of metropolitan to Java 1503 A thousand Christians in service of king of Pegu in Burma 1506 Shimun VH 1505-1538 St. Francis Zavier arrives to India 1542 Eshuyow Shimun VII 1538-1551 Dinkha Shimun IX [Ba rMama] 1552-1558 Yualaha Shimun X 1558-1580 Dinkha Shimun XI 1580-1600 Synod of Diamper in Malabar 15 99 Discovery of Nestorian Monument in China 1625 Elia Shimun XII 1600-1653 Coonen Cross secession 1653 Eshuyow Shimun XIII 1653-1690 Yoalaha Shimun XIV 1690-1692 Dinkha Shimun XV 1692-1700 Numbers of Christians in armies of the Mahrattas 1714 Shlemon [Sulaiman] Shimun XVI 1700-1740 Mikhail [Mukhattis] Shimun XVII 1740-1741 Yonan [Yuna] Shimun XVIII 1740-1820 Islam, by Tippu Sultan forces conversions of Christians to Islam 1784 8 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE Breach between C.M.S. Missionaries and Jacobite metropolitan 1837 Oraham Shimun XIX 1820-1860 Mar Thoma Syrian Christian annual convention at Maramann begun 1896 Ruwil Shimun XX 1860-1903 In order to restore the Syro-Chaldean jurisdiction in Inid, on the Church of Mar Saba, 17th of December, 1862, Upper Tiari, Kurdistan, consecrated: Mar Abdeeso Antonios, Metropolitan of the Syro-Chaldean Christians of Malabar, India, [The Most Reverend Thondanat Anthony]. He consecrated, Mar Basilius, Metropolitan of India, Ceylon, Mylapore, Socotra and Messina [The Most Reverend Luis Mariana Soares] on the 24th of July, 1899, in the Syro-Chaldean Cathedral, Trichur, Cochin, India. He consecrated Mar Jacobus, Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex [Rt. Rev. Ulric Vernon Hereford] on the 30th of November, 1902, in the Church of the Epiphany, Pallithanam, Madura District, South India. He consecrated Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent [The Rt. Rev. William Stanley McBean Knight], October 18, 1931, in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle, Monmouth, England. In order to restore the Syro-Chaldean jurisdiction in Inid, on the 17th of December, 1862, in the Church of Mar Saba, Upper Tiari, Kurdistan, consecrated: Mar Abdeeso Antonios, Metropolitan of the Syro-Chaldean Christians of Malabar, India, [The Most Reverend Thondanat Anthony]. He consecrated, Mar Basilius, Metropolitan of India, Ceylon, Mylapore, Socotra and Messina [The Most Reverend Luis Mariana Soares] on the 24th of July, 1899, in the Syro-Chaldean Cathedral, Trichur, Cochin, India. 9 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE He consecrated Mar Jacobus, Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex [Rt. Rev. Ulric Vernon Hereford] on the 30th of November, 1902, in the Church of the Epiphany, Pallithanam, Madura District, South India. He consecrated Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent [The Rt. Rev. William Stanley McBean Knight], October 18, 1931, in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle, Monmouth, England. He consecrated Mar Hedley, Bishop of Siluria, August 15, 1938, succeeding Administrator of the Syro-Chaldean Metropolitan See of India, Shri-Lanka, Mylapore, Socotra, and Messina. He consecrated Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of Glastonbury, Apostolic Primate of the West, Administrator of the Syro-Chaldean Metropolitan See of India, Shri-Lanka, Mylapore. Socotra, and Messina, on May 20th, 1945, in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle. He consecrated [conditionally] Mar Boltwood [The Most Rev. Dr. Charles Boltwood], a bishop of another catholic communion, in London, England on April 13, 1952. He consecrated Mar Yokhannan [The Rt. Rev. John M. Stanley] as Bishop of Washington in the Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Andrews, London, England, on May 3rd, 1959. A year later Mar Boltwood granted Mar Yokhannan full power and authority to rule an autocephalous church. An Ecumenical Patriarch, Mar Georgius elevated Mar Yokhannan to Metropolitan of the United States, April 10, 1963, further to Metropolitan of North America on December 4, 1965. The Church in the United States was first given the name Syro-Chaldean Diocese of Washington. Then, as part of the North American archdiocese, the Church used the name Chaldean Church of the East [Similar to the Chaldean-Syrian Church of India.] 10 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE Mar Yokhannan, The Most Rev. John M. Stanley, consecrated the Rt. Rev. Floyd W. Newman, Cor-Episcopa, as Bishop, in the Church of the Resurrection, Bremerton, Washington, on October 12, 1989. GREEK ORTHODOX APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION OF MAR YOKHANNAN [THE MOST REVEREND JOHN M. STANLEY] AND THE RT. REV. FLOYD W. NEWMAN [BISHOP THADDEUS]. Bishop Joachim Souis of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of New York and Archbishop Theodotus of the Syro-Russian Orthodox Church consecrated Bishop Walter Myron Propheta in 1964, in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Resurrection. Archbishop Theokotos, Old Calendar Greek Orthodox of Salamis, Greece, and Archbishop Theodotus [Syro-Russian Orthodox] elevated and consecrated as Archbishop, Bishop Walter Myron Propheta in 1965, in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Resurrection.
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