Yohannan is a Syriac name, from the Hebrew name

Yohanan Yohanan, Yochanan and Johanan are various transliterations to the Latin alphabet of the Hebrew male given name ('), a shortened form of ('), meaning "YHWH is gracious". The name is ancient, recorded as the name of Johanan, high priest of the Sec ...

, equivalent to English

John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Seco ...

, French

Jehan Jehan is a male given name. It is the old orthography of Jean in Old French, and is rarely given anymore. It is also a variant of the Persian name Jahan in some South Asian languages. People with the given name Jehan * Jehan Adam (15th century ...

, Spanish

Juan ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of '' John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish ...

, and German

Johannes Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ...

. It may refer to: * Yohannan the Leper, Yohannan Garba ("the Leper"), originally metropolitan of Nisibis, was anti-patriarch of the Church of the East between 691 and 693 * Yohannan I, a.k.a. Yohannan I bar Marta, patriarch of the Church of the East between 680 and 683 * Yohannan II, a.k.a. Yohannan II bar Narsai, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 884 to 891 * Yohannan III, the nephew of the patriarch Theodosius (853–858), was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 893 to 899 * Yohannan IV, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 900 to 905 * Yohannan V, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1000 to 1011 * Yohannan VI, a.k.a. Yohannan VI bar Nazuk, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1012 to 1016 *

Yohannan VII Yohannan VII bar Targhal was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1049 to 1057. He lived through the final years of the Buyid dynasty, and was present in Baghdad when Toghrul Beg, the first sultan of the Seljuq dynasty, entered the city in D ...

, a.k.a. Yohannan VII bar Targhal, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1049 to 1057 * Yohannan VIII Hormizd, a.k.a. John Hormez or Hanna Hormizd, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (d. 1830) * Yohannan, Metropolitan of India ( 1490–1504) * K. P. Yohannan (born 1950), founder and president of Gospel for Asia; the Metropolitan of Believers Church * T. C. Yohannan (born 1947), Indian long jumper * Tim Yohannan (1945–1998), founder of ''Maximum Rocknroll'', a radio show and fanzine documenting punk subculture

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