Thomas Audo
Thomas Audo (born October 11, 1855 in Alqosh ; † July 27 (?) July 1918 in Urmia ) was a Semitist and bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church .
Thomas (Tuma) Audo, son of the priest Hormozd bar Mikhael, came from a Chaldean Catholic family from which several bishops emerged. His uncle Mar Joseph VI. Audo was Patriarch of Babylon , Thomas' brother Israel Audo († 1941) metropolitan of Mardin since 1909 .
After completing his studies in Rome (1869-1880) Thomas Audo was ordained a priest in 1882 . He then worked as patriarchal vicar in Aleppo and Regens of the Syrian-Chaldean seminary in Mosul . On September 4, 1892, he was appointed Archbishop of Urmia and Salamas . In the wake of the clashes between Muslim Kurds and Christian Assyrians, he was shot in the courtyard of his bishop's house at the end of July 1918 and succumbed to his injuries a few days later.
Main work
- Dictionnaire de la langue chaldéenne , 2 volumes (Syriac), Mossoul: Impr. Des Pères Dominicains 1897–1901.
Reprints:
- Dictionary of the Assyrian language . Stockholm: Assyrian Federation in Sweden 1979.
- Treasure of the Syriac language . Losser: St.Ephrem the Syrian Monastery 1985.
- Treasure of the Syriac Language: A Dictionary of Classical Syriac . Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-59333-572-4
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| SURNAME | Audo, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Semitist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alqosh |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: July 27, 1918 |
| Place of death | Urmia |