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110th Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1768-1781)| Ignatius George IV | |
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| Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East | |
| Church | Syriac Orthodox Church |
| See | Antioch |
| Installed | 1768 |
| Term ended | 1781 |
| Predecessor | Ignatius George III |
| Successor | Ignatius Matthew |
| Personal details | |
| Born | George 1709 Mosul, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | July 21 1781 (aged 71–72) Mor Hananyo, Mardin |
| Residence | Mor Hananyo |
Ignatius George IV was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1768 until his death in 1781.
Biography
George was born in Mosul in 1709. His father’s name was Mousa and he was from the family of priest Abdaljalil from Mosul. He gained knowledge in Syriac and religious studies and in 1729 traveled to Mor Hananyo to become a monk. Then he was ordained a monk and then a priest. In January 1737, Ignatius Shukrallah II ordained him as Metropolitan of Hattack near Diyarbakir calling him Cyril George. In 1742, Ignatius George III sent him on a mission to Mosul to check on the diocese there and it happened that he was there when Nader Shah laid siege on Mosul for about one month. After the siege was lifted he stayed to take care of renovating the churches in Mosul that were damaged by the artillery of Nader Shah campaign including the Church of Saint Thomas. In 1747, Patriarch Ignatius George III appointed him as the superior of Mor Hananyo and the diocese of Mardin. When Basil Lazarus IV, Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East died in 1759, Patriarch Ignatius George III selected Cyril George as the new Maphrian in 1760 and was given the name Basil George and was consecrated at the church in Amid. As was still the superior of Mor Hananyo, he gave the administration of the Maphrianate to his cousin Bishop Cyril Rizk Allah from Mosul. In 1762, he visited Mosul again and stayed there until 1763
When Ignatius George III died in July 1768, the Holy Synod elected Basil George as the new patriarch after a request from the faithful in Mardin and Amid. The new patriarch inherited a lot of debt from his predecessors and many churches and monasteries were in a bad shape due to the effects of the schism in the church. After he was consecrated, he went his brother, Deacon Isaiah, to the capital, Constantinople, and he obtained the royal decree for him for the Ottoman Sultan. During his reign, he paid all the church debt and build and renovated many churches and monasteries.
During his time as a patriarch, the pull of the Roman Catholic doctrine was appearing in the diocese of Aleppo and pushing it to secede from the Syriac Orthodox Church with support from the Catholic Missionaries and the French counsel in Aleppo. This movement was being led by Michael Jarwa who was the Syriac Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Aleppo and who was ordained by patriarch Ignatius George III in 1766. Ignatius George IV tried to solve the issues and gain the faithful back to the church but all the patriarch work didn’t bear any fruit and the diocese of Aleppo ended up seceding from the mother with the exception of two priest and few families.
Episcopal succession
During Ignatius George IV time as a Patriarch and a Maphrian, he had the duty to ordain and consecrate many Metropolitans in the Syria Orthodox church in addition to tens of priests, monks, and deacons
- Cyril Bishara (1761-1789). Metropolitan of the Patriarchal office
- Iyawannis Behnam (1763-1776). Metropolitan of the Monastery of MOR Behnam
- Gregorius Antone (1768-1774). Bishop of Gargar and Hisn Mansour
- Cyril Matthew (1768 -1782). Metropolitan of Mosul. Later, he was elected Ignatius Matthew, the 111th Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church (1781-1817).
- Cyril Mansour. Metropolitan of Jerusalem
- Cyril Mousa (1771). Metropolitan of MOR Mousa Monastary in Syriac
- Clemis Ibraheem (1772). Ecumenical Metropolitan
- Julius Abdulahad (1774). Metropolitan of the Patriarchal office
- Iyawannis Ne’matallah (1774). Ecumenical Metropolitan
- Timothy Abdulahad (1774). Metropolitan of Bitlis
- Dionysius Abdullah (1777). Metropolitan of Aleppo
- Cyril Ibraheem (1777). Ecumenical Metropolitan
- Jacob Mirijan (1778-1804). Bishop of Mydiat
Death
Ignatius George IV died in 1781 in Mor Hananyo and was buried at Beth Qadish in the same monastery.
References
- ^ Shamoun, Gregorius Saliba (1984). تاريخ ابرشية الموصل السريانية. Mosul, Iraq: مطبعة شفيق: بغداد. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- ^ Barsoum, Ignatius Aphram; Moosa, Matti (2009). History of the Syriac dioceses. Piscataway (N. J.): Gorgias press. ISBN 978-1-59333-218-1.
- ^ Dolabani, Philoxenos Yuhanon (2012). History of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs.
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| Preceded byBasil Lazarus IV | Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East 1760-1768 |
Succeeded byBasil Sliba |
| Preceded byIgnatius George III | Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch 1768-1781 |
Succeeded byIgnatius Matthew |
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| † Illegitimate; Maphrian of Malabar | |
