Mar Joseph II Sliba Marouf (or ''Youssef II Sliba Bet Macruf'') was the second incumbent of the ''Josephite'' line of

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, a little patriarchate in

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with the

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active in the areas of Amid and

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in the 17th–19th century. He was the patriarch of the

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from 1696 to 1713.

Life

Sliba Marouf was born in 1667 in

Tel Keppe Tel Keppe ( syr, ܬܸܠ ܟܹܐܦܹܐ ', ar, تل كيف ', alternatively spelled Tel Kaif or Telkef) is an Assyrian town in northern Iraq. It is located in the Nineveh Governorate, less than 8 mi (13 km) northeast of Mosul.Welcome to Te ...

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, received first orders at fourteen, and was consecrated bishop, without the previous consent of

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, at the age of 24 in 1691 by

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. He was chosen by Joseph I as his successor in 1694, but this appointment became effective only when Rome accepted his predecessor's resignation in 1696. Thus Sliba Marouf was confirmed patriarch by

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on June 18, 1696, with the name of Joseph II. As happened for Joseph I, his ministry had to face the strong opposition of the traditionalists. This forced him in 1708 to ask permission of Rome to resign and move to

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, a request that was not granted. During the plague that spread from 1708 he distinguish himself for the help and the pastoral care he offered to the sick until he too was infected. Early in 1713 he chose as successor Timothy Maroge and died of plague a few months later in 1713 (or according to other sources in 1712) at the age of 46.

Works

Joseph is remembered as a

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and

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writer and for having translated many texts from

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. His ''Speculum tersum'' (''Book of the pure Mirror'') was translated from Syriac into Latin by I. A. Assemani and is conserved in the

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, segn. Borg.lat.177

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