Philippe-Jacques Abraham

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Mar Philippe-Jacques Abraham ( Aramaic ܐܒܪܗܡ ܦܝܠܝܦܘܣ ܝܥܩܘܒ; * January 3, 1848 in Telkef in the Nineveh plain ; † August 28, 1915 in Cizre ) was bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church and victim of the genocide of the Arameans .

Life

At an early age, Philippe-Jacques Abraham entered the Rabban Hormizd monastery , where he pursued his theological studies. He was ordained a bishop on July 25, 1875 by the Syro-Malabar Church in India . Seven years later he was by Joseph VI. Audo was ordained bishop for the Chaldeans of the Jazira region on February 10, 1882 and was thus head of the Gazireh diocese .

During the bloody massacres and riots against the small Aramaic minority in 1915, he tried to seek help from a Muslim Agha to spare the city's Christians . His efforts were ultimately in vain, and he was arrested and imprisoned by the Ottoman authorities on August 21, 1915 . The authorities had him tortured and executed a week later along with the Syrian Catholic Bishop Flavianus Michael Malke ; they had a choice between death and conversion to Islam . After refusing to convert, Mar Philippe-Jacques Abraham was shot and his body dragged through the city streets.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bishop Philippe-Jacques Abraham, OAOC †. catholic-hierarchy.org, accessed March 29, 2012 .
  2. ↑ نوري إيشوع, مندو: بازبداي أبرشية الجزيرة العمرية في تاريخ الكنيسة الكلدانية. chaldeaneurope.org, accessed March 29, 2012 (Arabic).
  3. ↑ [1] Rhétoré, Jacques "Les chrétiens aux bêtes: souvenirs de la guerre sainte proclamée ..," Cerf, 2005. Pages 290, 316, 321. ISBN 2-204-07243-5
  4. ↑ كرسي أبرشية ماردين. Archbishopric of the Syrian Catholic Church in Aleppo, accessed March 29, 2012 (Arabic).
personal data
SURNAME Abraham, Philippe-Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abraham, Mar Philippe-Jacques; ܐܒܪܗܡ ܦܝܠܝܦܘܣ ܝܥܩܘܒ (Aramaic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chaldean bishop
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Telkef
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1915
Place of death Cizre