Timotheos Paulos Fehim

Timotheos Paulos Fehim (* in Siverek ; † February 9, 1914 in Istanbul ) was a bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church .

Paulos Fehim was born in Siverek in the first half of the 19th century , grew up in Edessa ( Urfa ) and was ordained a married priest in 1862. As a widower consecrated bishop of Edessa in 1883 with seat in the monastery Mor Abhay near Gerger , he took the official name Timotheos. From 1887 until his death he worked as a bishop with the title of Patriarchal Vicar in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, which is not one of the historic bishoprics of his church. Fehim owned an impressive collection of older Syrian manuscripts that passed to his son Petros (Fehim Beg) Eronur, chief of protocol at the Sultan's court. Almost half of the pieces are now missing, including the chronicle from 1234 . A total of nine codices were acquired in the 1960s by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the beincke Rare Book and Manuscript Library . An autobiography written by Bishop Timotheus in 1912 was not printed and appears to be lost.

literature

• Hidemi Takahashi: So via Istanbul to New Haven - Mss. Yale Syriac 7-12 . In: Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion. Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas . Edited by David Reisman - Felicitas Opwis. Brill, Leiden 2012, 157-176.