Audishu V Khayyath

Mar Audishu V, (Ebed-Jesu V), Georges Khayyath (or Abdisho V, Giwargis Hayyat) (Arabic: مار جرجيس عبد يشوع الخامس خياط) (October 15, 1827 – November 6, 1899) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1894 to his death in 1899. He was also an Aramaic-language scholar.

Audishu V Khayyath
Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
ChurchChaldean Catholic Church
ArchdioceseBabylon
SeeBabylon of the Chaldeans
InstalledOctober 28, 1894
Term endedNovember 06, 1899
PredecessorEliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan
SuccessorYousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas
Orders
Ordination1855 (Priest)
Consecration23 Sept 1860 (Bishop)
by Joseph Audo
Personal details
Born
Georges Ebed-Iesu Khayyath

October 15, 1827
DiedNovember 6, 1899(1899-11-06) (aged 72)
ResidenceIraq

He is remembered also as editor of the Mosul Edition of the Chaldean Peshitta. He wrote a book titled Romanorum Pontificum Primatus.

Life

He was born on October 15, 1827, in Mossul. He studied in the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome and was ordained priest in 1855. On 23 September 1860 he was ordained Bishop of Amadiyah, Iraq, by Patriarch Joseph Audo.[1] He was the patriarchal vicar of Mossul from 1863 to 1870 and metropolitan of Amid from 1874 to 1894. He was appointed Patriarch of the Chaldean Church on October 28, 1894, and served till his death on November 6, 1899. He died and was buried at the church of Mary mother of sorrows in Baghdad, modern day Iraq. He replaced Patriarch Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan and was followed by Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas.

Images

Audishu V Khayyath meets with Yazidi leaders in Mosul, c. 1895
Audishu V Khayyath
Mar Audishu V Khayyath grave at a Baghdad Chaldean church, Iraq, buried in 1899

References

  1. David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913, Peeters Publishers, 2000 ISBN 90-429-0876-9, pag 741

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