Mar Toma Audo ( syr, ܬܐܘܡܐ ܐܘܕܘ), also spelled Thomas Audo (October 10, 1854 - July 27, 1918) was

Archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...

of the

Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmia Chaldean (also Chaldaean or Chaldee) may refer to: Language * an old name for the Aramaic language, particularly Biblical Aramaic * Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a modern Aramaic language * Chaldean script, a variant of the Syriac alphabet Places * Chald ...

(1890-1918), within the

Chaldean Catholic Church , native_name_lang = syc , image = Assyrian Church.png , imagewidth = 200px , alt = , caption = Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows Baghdad, Iraq , abbreviation = , type ...

.Archbishop Thomas Audo
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Life

He was born on October 11, 1855 in

Alqosh Alqosh ( syr, ܐܲܠܩܘܿܫ, Judeo-Aramaic: אלקוש, ar, ألقوش, alternatively spelled Alkosh or Alqush) is a town in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District and is situated 45 km north of the ...

to ethnic

Assyrian Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyrian ...

parents. His uncle

Joseph Audo Joseph VI Audo (or ''Audu'' or ''Oddo'') (1790–1878) was the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1847 to 1878. Early life Joseph VI Audo was born in Alqosh in 1790 and in 1814 he became a monk of the monastery of Rabban Hormizd. He w ...

, who was the

Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church This is a list of the Chaldean Catholicoi-Patriarchs of Baghdad, formerly Babylon, the leaders of the Chaldean Catholic Church and one of the Patriarchs of the east of the Catholic Church starting from 1553 following the schism of 1552 which ca ...

, took him to Rome to study. After completing the studies, he was ordained priest in 1880, and appointed the first

of the newly created

on December 3, 1890. He was consecrated on September 4, 1892, and served as diocesan bishop until his assassination during the

Assyrian genocide The Sayfo or the Seyfo (; see below), also known as the Assyrian genocide, was the mass slaughter and deportation of Assyrian / Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish t ...

on July 27, 1918.

Works

Main work of Toma Audo was a descriptive dictionary of

Syriac language The Syriac language (; syc, / '), also known as Syriac Aramaic (''Syrian Aramaic'', ''Syro-Aramaic'') and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language, Aramaic dialect that emerged during ...

, in two volumes, with first being printed in 1897, and second in 1901, but antedated to the same year as the first volume (1897). Entire content of both volumes was printed in Syriac, using the East Syriac script. The work had a Syriac title (''Simtā d-leššānā suryāyā''), that translates into English as: ''Treasure of the Syriac Language'', but instead of a proper translation of original title, both volumes were printed under an auxiliary French title: ''Dictionnaire de la langue Chaldêenne''. Distinction between ''Syriac'' designation in the primary title, and ''Chaldean'' designation in the French title, later became on of several points of contention related to that work. First edition: * * Later editions: * * Other works: * Kalila and Dimna: Fables of Bidpai.

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