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Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas

Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas

Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1900 to 1947

Mar Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas (August 8, 1852 - July 21, 1947) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1900 until his death in 1947.

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He was born on August 8, 1852, in Alqosh. An ethnic Assyrian, he studied in the Ghazir Seminary in Lebanon and was ordained priest on July 10, 1879. On July 24, 1892, he was ordained Bishop of Seert, now in Turkey, by patriarch Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan. He was appointed Patriarch of the Chaldean Church on the July 9, 1900, and confirmed by the Holy See on December 17 of the same year. He presided over the Chaldean Catholic Church during World War I and World War II, including the Assyrian genocide, serving as patriarch untill his death on July 21, 1947. He succeeded Patriarch Audishu V Khayyath and was succeeded by Yousef VII Ghanima.

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    • "Archbishop Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2009-01-15.[self-published source]
    • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
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