Mār Yōsip Khnanisho ( syr, ܡܪܝ ܝܘܣܦ ܚܢܢܝܫܘܥ), the twelfth
Metropolitan or ''Matran'' of
Shemsdin from 1918 to 1977.
Life
Hakkari
As it was the custom for an uncle to pass on to the first born nephew the Sacred Episcopal Office, Yōsip's mother abstained from meats until the child's birth and weaning.
["A Brief Biography of blessed memory Mar +Yosip Khnanisho", Assyrian Church of the East]
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Yosip was born in 1893 into the Mar Khnanishu family, a family from which had come twelve Metropolitan Archbishops. He lived in the Village of Mar Ishoo in the region of Shamisdan in modern-day Turkey, near the monastery of Mar Ishoo, which had been built at the beginning of the 5th century. He studied with Rev. Rehana, his father's uncle and head of the Seminary in Mar Ishu Monastery.
Yosip was ordained a deacon at age 12 and ordained as a priest in 1912 at the age of 20. In 1914, he was sent as a delegate to participate in a meeting at the patriarchal cell in Qudchanis to discuss the effects of World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
on the Church and the nation and prepare for the changes that were expected to take place. While there, he was consecrated a Bishop on August 10, 1914 at age 22. He remained in Qudchanis until 1916. When the Assyrian Christians sought a safe haven elsewhere, Yosip took a great number of believers to the city of Baqooba.
Iraq
In 1918, Mār Yōsip was appointed as assistant to the Patriarch Mar Shimun XX Paulos as Locum Tenens
A locum, or locum tenens, is a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another; the term is especially used for physicians or clergy. For example, a ''locum tenens physician'' is a physician who works in the place of the regular physician. ...
. In December 1918 he was elevated to the rank of metropolitan of Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
and filled the role as Patriarchal administrator while then Patriarch Mar Shimun XX Paulos was sick, up until his death in 1920.[
In 1933, he was made administrator of the Church in Iraq and the Middle East.] In 1973 when Shimun XXI Eshai
Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII ( syr, 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,Foster, p. 34 served as the 119th Catholico ...
, Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
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, was exiled to Cyprus, Yosip Khnanisho was vested with responsibilities of administering the Church worldwide.[ At the same time the Iraqi government issued a Republican decree appointing Yosip Khnanisho as the Supreme Head of all the ]Assyrians in Iraq
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.
Death
On the 3 July 1977, Yosip died in Baghdad, Iraq. His funeral services were conducted on 6 July 1977, at the Church of St George (Mar Gewargis) in Dora, a suburb of Baghdad. Approximately 12,000 Christians from various cities in Iraq attended the funeral of Mar Yosip Khnanisho.
Mār Yōsip Khnanisho Church in San Jose, California
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, and Mar Yosip Khnanisho Parish in Gilbert, Arizona are both named after the metropolitan.
References
See also
*Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East,, ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية sometimes called Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East,; ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية الرسول ...
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1893 births
1977 deaths
Assyrian saints
20th-century bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East
Nochiya Tribe
Assyrian Church of the East saints