Ignatius Andreas Akhidjan

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Ignatius Andreas Akhijian

Ignatius Andreas Akhidjan (* 1622 in Aleppo ; † 24 July 1677 ibid) was the Catholic Patriarch of Antioch the Syrians .

Life

Abd el-Ghal Akhidjan (Aḫīğān) was born into a Syrian Orthodox family from Mardin and learned about Catholicism through Carmelite missionaries . From 1649 he studied at the Maronite College in Rome and returned to the Orient after three years. There he worked for some time with Elzéar de Sanxay OFMCap in Cairo, who wanted to send him to Ethiopia as a missionary in 1649. 1652 he was by the Maronite patriarch John IX. Bawabder was first ordained as presbyter for the Maronites in Cyprus and then on June 29, 1656, promoted by the French consul François Picquet , as Syrian archbishop for Aleppo. As such, he took the name Andreas. On August 9, 1656, he took office in Aleppo, but had to withdraw to Lebanon in 1657/8 before the Syrian Orthodox opposition. On January 28, 1659, Pope Alexander VII confirmed him as Syrian Catholic Ordinary of Aleppo. On April 19, 1662, the Catholic-minded party achieved his appointment as Syrian Patriarch of Antioch, based in Aleppo, in a split election. Sultan Mohammed IV confirmed him in office on August 3, 1662 , Rome only on April 23, 1663. With his enthronement on August 20, 1662 Akhidjan took on the traditional patriarchal name Ignatius. The Greek Orthodox Patriarch Makarios III also took part in the celebrations . Zaim part. In 1663/4 there were violent clashes with the Syrian Orthodox counter-patriarch Ignatius Abdul Masih I and his followers, but Akhidjan soon gained state recognition as the sole head of the Syrian Church. From 1673 to 1676 he conducted an unsuccessful correspondence with the then Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Ibn al-Ġurayr of Damascus in order to win him over to the union with Rome.

Patriarch Ignatius Andreas Akhidjan died on July 24, 1677 in his hometown. His Catholic successor was the former Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Jerusalem Ignatius Pierre VI. Chaahbadine (Šāhbadīn) ordered († 1702 as a prisoner in Adana).

literature

  • Jacob Kollaparambil: The St. Thomas Christians' Revolution in 1653. The Catholic Bishop's House, Kottayam 1981, 98f.
  • Ignace Antoine II Hayek: Le relazioni della Chiesa Syro-Giacobita con la Santa Sede del 1443 al 1656. Geuthner, Paris 2015, 148-150.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c P. Dib: Akidjian . In: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques . tape 1 . Letouzey et Ané, Paris 1912, p. 1283 .
  2. ^ Jean Fathi: Yūhannā Ibn al-Ġurayr, passeur de la tradition syriaque et arabe chrétienne au XVIIe siècle . In: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 68. 2016, 81–209.
personal data
SURNAME Akhidjan, Ignatius Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akhidjan, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic Patriarch of Antioch the Syrians
DATE OF BIRTH 1622
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1677
Place of death Aleppo