the apostolic succession

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THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION
of the FCGM Synod of the
Hebrew Church of the East in America
With Some Names in the Context of History
+ + +OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP [THE MOST REVEREND SAM T. LEIGH, P.TH.D.]
+ + +AND THE EXECUTIVE BISHOP [THE RIGHT REVEREND DAVID L. LATHROP, D.B.S.]
FROM THE FOUNDER: OUR LORD JESUS
CHRIST, MESSIAH OF ISRAEL AND THE
WORLD

St. Peter, who wrote his Catholic Epistle from Babylon [Shimun Keepa I Peter, 1:1 and 5.13]
St. Thomas, who after establishing the Church in Edessa, King Agbar, all of Mesopotamia, Persia
and their environment, went to India

HEBREW SUCCESSION
Y
[Tooma Shlikha] a
c
Thomas, the Twin arrived in India o
b
Bar Tulmay ,

Addi ]or Addai]Shlikha R
e
[St. Jude Thaddeus] l
a
Agai, Disciple of Addai,
t
from the 70 Disciples» i
v
Mari, Disciple of Addai e

Reputed arrival of first missionaries to China o
f
Abris, Relative of the Virgin Mary

Y
Gospel carried to the Gilanians and
a
the lands of Gog and Magog s
i
Oraham I, of Kashkar
p
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[Joseph] the Carpenter DATE
Pantaenus visited India 33-73
Edid M'shikha 49-52
33
Akhu d'Awu
33-45

45-81

48-81
64
90-107
120-140
130-152
170-190
185
191-203
205-220
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HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE
Shakhulpa of Kashkar 224-244
Papa Bar Gaggai 247-326
First Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Probable date of Asoka
inscriptions and edicts 300
Arnobius speaks of the Chinese
as united in the faith of Christ 303
Ephraim born 303
Christianity of Byzantium, official in the Roman Empire 313
Council of Nicea, Ephraem wrote Nicene Creed 325
Shimun Bar Sabbai 328-341
First Persian Persecution — Sapor II 339-379
Knai Thomas arrives to Malabar Coast 345
Shahdust 345-347
Bar Bashmin 350-358

Theophilus the Indian, from the Island of Divu,
consecrated Bishop 356
Tumarsa 383-393
Qaiyuma 393-399
Eskhaq 399-411
Akhkhi 411-415
Unalaha I 415-420
Bahram V — Second Persian persecution 420
Maana 420-
Qarahukht 421-
Dadishu 421-456
Title of Patriarch first conferred on Catholicos of Seleucia 424
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HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE
Yezdegerd II Third Persian persecution 448
The Massacre of Kirkuk
Bawai or Bahu 457-484
Aqaq 484-496
Bawai 496-502
Sheela 505-523

Narsa
Dual Patriarchate 524-535
Visit of Cosmas 523
Elisha 524-538
Polos 539-540
Yosip 552-567
Khazqiyil 570-581
Eshuyow I, Arzunaya 581-595
Horoscope of Krishna, August 7 600
Sorishu I Garmaqaya 596-604
Greghar, Partaya 605-606
Taisin(Judea) Church comes to the Tang Dynasty. China 618-45
Shuyow II
[Edalaya or Arab] 626-644
Metropolitans appointed to
Samarkand, India, and China 628-643
Mar Immeih 647-650
Eshuyow III,
Kdayawaya 650-660
GewargisI 681-684
Yokhannan I, Bar Marta 684-692
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HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE
Khnaishu I 686-693
Yokhannan II, Garba 693-694
Sliwazkha 714-728
Perhyon 731-740
Visit of Christian Physician to Japan
and reported conversion of Empress 724-748
Awa 741-751
Surin 752-754
Yacob II 754-773

Khnanishu II
774-778
[China Monument erected in his reign]
780
Christianity dominant religion in China
781
Erection of Nestorian monument in China
780-820
Timotheus
820-824
Eshu-barnon
822
Copper plate charters of Christians of St. Thomas
825-832
Gewargis II
832-836
Soreshu II
845
Edict of suppression of Christians in China
850-852
Teadasis [of Theodoros]
Sargis, Suwaya 860-872
Annush d"beth Garma 873-884
Yokhannan III, Bar Narsay 884-892

Yokhannan IV,
892-898
[Nephew ofTheodoros]
Yokhannan V, Bar Ogare 900-905
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HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE
Oraham III, Abraza 906-937
Ammanaoel I 937-949
Esrail Karkhaua 961 -962
Odishu Garmaqaya 963-936
Mari Aturaya 967-1000
Yokhannan VI
[Yaoannis] 1001-1012
First Muhammadan invasion of India 1001
Conversion of Keraits 1007

Yokhannan VII,
[BarNazuk] 1013-1022
Eshyow IV 1023-1027
Elia I [Terhan] 1028-1049

Yokhannan VII
[Bar Tragala] 1049-1057
Soreshu III [Bar Zanhur] 1057-1072
Odishu II [Bar Ars] Aturaya 1072-1090
Makkikha I [Bar Shlemon] 1092-1109
Elia II [Bar Maqli] 1111-1132
Bar Soma [of Suwa] 1133-1135
Bar Gabbara 1135-1136
Legend of Prester John 1143
Odishu III [Nephew of Elia II] 1133-1147
Eshuyow V
[From Beth Zodai, Baladaya 1023-1027
Elia III [Abukhalim] 1148-1175
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HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE
Rise of power of Jenghiz Khan 1206
Yoalaha II [Bar Qaiyama] 1191-1222
Patna, India, a metropolitan See 1222
Sorishu IV 1222-1226
Sorishu V [From Baghdad] 1226-1256
Kubla Khan first emperor of a United China 1259
Makkikha II 1257-1265
Rise of empire of Vijayanagar 1259
Dinka I
[Arbilyay, i.e., from Arbil] 1265-1281
Yoalaha III [Bar Turkaye, i.e.,
Turkish by race] 1281-1318
Timotheus II
[Arbilaya, i.e., from Arbil] 1318-1328
Extirpation of Christianity in China under the Ming Dynasty 1369
Dinkha II 1329-1359
Dinkha III 1359-1368
Shimun III 1369-1392
Tamerlane's domination 1366-1405
Sack of Delhi by Tamerlane 1398
Shimun IV 1403-1407
Elia III 1407-1420
Shimun V 1420-1447
Shimun VI 1448-1490
EliaV 1491-1504
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HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE
Portuguese arrive in India 1500
Appointment of metropolitan to Java 1503
A thousand Christians in service of king of Pegu in Burma 1506
Shimun VH 1505-1538
St. Francis Zavier arrives to India 1542
Eshuyow Shimun VII 1538-1551

Dinkha Shimun IX
[Ba rMama] 1552-1558
Yualaha Shimun X 1558-1580
Dinkha Shimun XI 1580-1600
Synod of Diamper in Malabar 15 99
Discovery of Nestorian Monument in China 1625
Elia Shimun XII 1600-1653
Coonen Cross secession 1653
Eshuyow Shimun XIII 1653-1690
Yoalaha Shimun XIV 1690-1692
Dinkha Shimun XV 1692-1700
Numbers of Christians in armies of the Mahrattas 1714
Shlemon [Sulaiman]
Shimun XVI 1700-1740
Mikhail [Mukhattis]
Shimun XVII 1740-1741
Yonan [Yuna]
Shimun XVIII 1740-1820
Islam, by Tippu Sultan
forces conversions of Christians to Islam 1784
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HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE
Breach between C.M.S. Missionaries
and Jacobite metropolitan 1837
Oraham Shimun XIX 1820-1860
Mar Thoma Syrian Christian
annual convention at Maramann begun 1896
Ruwil Shimun XX 1860-1903
In order to restore the Syro-Chaldean jurisdiction
in Inid, on the Church of Mar Saba, 17th of December, 1862,
Upper Tiari, Kurdistan, consecrated:
Mar Abdeeso Antonios, Metropolitan of the
Syro-Chaldean Christians of Malabar, India,
[The Most Reverend Thondanat Anthony].
He consecrated, Mar Basilius, Metropolitan of India,
Ceylon, Mylapore, Socotra and Messina
[The Most Reverend Luis Mariana Soares] on the 24th of July, 1899,
in the Syro-Chaldean Cathedral, Trichur, Cochin, India.
He consecrated Mar Jacobus,
Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex
[Rt. Rev. Ulric Vernon Hereford] on the 30th of November, 1902,
in the Church of the Epiphany, Pallithanam,
Madura District, South India.
He consecrated Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent
[The Rt. Rev. William Stanley McBean Knight], October 18, 1931,
in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle,
Monmouth, England.
In order to restore the Syro-Chaldean
jurisdiction in Inid, on the 17th of December, 1862,
in the Church of Mar Saba, Upper Tiari, Kurdistan,
consecrated: Mar Abdeeso Antonios,
Metropolitan of the Syro-Chaldean Christians
of Malabar, India, [The Most Reverend Thondanat Anthony].
He consecrated, Mar Basilius, Metropolitan of
India, Ceylon, Mylapore, Socotra and Messina
[The Most Reverend Luis Mariana Soares] on the 24th of July, 1899,
in the Syro-Chaldean Cathedral, Trichur, Cochin, India.

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HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE
He consecrated Mar Jacobus,
Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex
[Rt. Rev. Ulric Vernon Hereford] on the 30th of November, 1902,
in the Church of the Epiphany, Pallithanam,
Madura District, South India.
He consecrated Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent
[The Rt. Rev. William Stanley McBean Knight], October 18, 1931,
in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle,
Monmouth, England.
He consecrated Mar Hedley, Bishop of Siluria, August 15, 1938,
succeeding Administrator of the Syro-Chaldean Metropolitan
See of India, Shri-Lanka, Mylapore, Socotra, and Messina.
He consecrated Mar Georgius I,
Patriarch of Glastonbury, Apostolic
Primate of the West, Administrator
of the Syro-Chaldean Metropolitan
See of India, Shri-Lanka, Mylapore.
Socotra, and Messina, on May 20th, 1945,
in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle.
He consecrated [conditionally] Mar Boltwood
[The Most Rev. Dr. Charles Boltwood],
a bishop of another catholic communion,
in London, England on April 13, 1952.
He consecrated Mar Yokhannan
[The Rt. Rev. John M. Stanley]
as Bishop of Washington in the
Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Andrews,
London, England, on May 3rd, 1959.
A year later Mar Boltwood granted
Mar Yokhannan full power and authority
to rule an autocephalous church.
An Ecumenical Patriarch, Mar Georgius
elevated Mar Yokhannan to Metropolitan
of the United States, April 10, 1963,
further to Metropolitan of North America on December 4, 1965.
The Church in the United States was first given the name Syro-Chaldean Diocese of Washington.
Then, as part of the North American archdiocese, the Church used the name Chaldean Church of
the East [Similar to the Chaldean-Syrian Church of India.]
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