Eliya VIII

Eliya VIII (Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ / Elīyā, d. 18 June 1660) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1617 to 1660, with residence in Rabban Hormizd Monastery, near Alqosh, in modern Iraq. On several occasions (1619, 1629, 1638, 1653) he was approached by representatives of the Catholic Church, but those contacts didn't led to any agreement.^[1][2] In older historiography, he was designated as Eliya VIII,^[3] but later renumbered as Eliya "IX" by some authors.^[4][5] After the resolution of several chronological questions, he was designated again as Eliya VIII,^[6][7][8] and that numeration is accepted in recent scholarly works.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

Mar Eliya VIII
Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
Church	Church of the East
Installed	1617
Term ended	1660
Predecessor	Eliya VII
Successor	Eliya IX
Personal details
Died	18 June 1660
Residence	Rabban Hormizd Monastery

The ancient Rabban Hormizd Monastery, former residence of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East

See also

• Patriarch of the Church of the East
• List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East
• Assyrian Church of the East

Notes

1. Wilmshurst 2000, p. 24-25.
2. Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 118.
3. Malech & Malech 1910, p. 321.
4. Tisserant 1931, p. 261-263.
5. Fiey 1993, p. 37.
6. Lampart 1966, p. 64, 69, 72.
7. Macomber 1969, p. 263-273.
8. Murre van den Berg 1999, p. 245.
9. Baum & Winkler 2000, p. 106-108, 152.
10. Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 174.
11. Baum 2004, p. 233-234.
12. Baumer 2005, p. 239, 249, 312.
13. Murre van den Berg 2006, p. 528.
14. Hage 2007, p. 473.
15. Jakob 2014, p. 99.

References

• Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2000). Die Apostolische Kirche des Ostens: Geschichte der sogenannten Nestorianer. Klagenfurt: Kitab. ISBN 9783902005052.
• Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192.
• Baum, Wilhelm (2004). "Die sogenannten Nestorianer im Zeitalter der Osmanen (15. bis 19. Jahrhundert)". Zwischen Euphrat und Tigris: Österreichische Forschungen zum Alten Orient. Münster-Wien: LIT Verlag. pp. 229–246. ISBN 9783825882570.
• Baumer, Christoph (2005). Frühes Christentum zwischen Euphrat und Jangtse: Eine Zeitreise entlang der Seidenstraße zur Kirche des Ostens. Stuttgart: Urachhaus. ISBN 9783825174507.
• Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris. ISBN 9781845111151.
• Fiey, Jean Maurice (1993). Pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Répertoire des diocèses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux. Beirut: Orient-Institut. ISBN 9783515057189.
• Hage, Wolfgang (2007). Das orientalische Christentum. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. ISBN 9783170176683.
• Jakob, Joachim (2014). Ostsyrische Christen und Kurden im Osmanischen Reich des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Münster: LIT Verlag. ISBN 9783643506160.
• Lampart, Albert (1966). Ein Märtyrer der Union mit Rom: Joseph I. 1681-1696, Patriarch der Chaldäer. Köln: Benziger Verlag.
• Macomber, William F. (1969). "A Funeral Madraša on the Assassination of Mar Hnanišo". Mémorial Mgr Gabriel Khouri-Sarkis (1898-1968). Louvain: Imprimerie orientaliste. pp. 263–273.
• Malech, George D.; Malech, Nestorius G. (1910). History of the Syrian nation and the Old Evangelical-Apostolic Church of the East: From Remote Antiquity to the Present Time. Minneapolis: Author's edition.
• Murre van den Berg, Heleen H. L. (1999). "The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries" (PDF). Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2 (2): 235–264. doi:10.31826/hug-2010-020119. S2CID 212688640.
• Murre van den Berg, Heleen H. L. (2006). "A Neo-Aramaic Gospel Lectionary Translation by Israel of Alqosh". Loquentes linguis: Linguistic and Oriental Studies in Honour of Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 523–533. ISBN 9783447054843.
• Tisserant, Eugène (1931). "L'Église nestorienne". Dictionnaire de théologie catholique. Vol. 11. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. pp. 157–323.
• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
• Wilmshurst, David (2011). The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.

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Church of the East titles
Preceded by Eliya VII (1591–1617)	Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East Eliya line (Alqosh) (1617–1660)	Succeeded by Eliya IX (1660–1700)