Philippe-Jacques Abraham
Mar Philippe-Jacques Abraham (Syriac: ܐܒܪܗܡ ܦܝܠܝܦܘܣ ܝܥܩܘܒ) (Orahim Pillipus Yaqub) (January 3, 1848 – August 28, 1915) was an ethnic Assyrian bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church.[1]
Philippe-Jacques Abraham | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of the Diocese of Gazireh | |
| See | Diocese of Gazireh |
| In office | 10 Feb 1882—August 28, 1915 |
| Predecessor | Joseph VI Audo |
| Successor | Suppressed |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1873 |
| Consecration | 10 Feb 1882 by Joseph VI Audo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 3, 1848 Telkef |
| Died | 28 August 1915 (aged 67) Cizre |
He was born in Telkef in 1848. He joined the Rabban Hormizd Monastery at a young age where he pursued his clerical studies and was ordained as a bishop of the Syrian Malabr Church in India on 25 July 1875. Seven years later he was consecrated as a bishop for the Chaldeans of the Jazira region by Joseph VI Audo.[2]
During the Assyrian Genocide he tried to ask for protection from a Muslim Agha to spare the city's Christians. His efforts were ultimately futile and he was arrested by the Ottoman authorities on 21 August 1915. The authorities had him executed a week later alongside the Syriac Catholic bishop Flavianus Michael Malke[3] and his body was dragged in the town's streets.[4][5]
See also
Notes
- "Bishop Philippe-Jacques Abraham, O.A.O.C. †". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
- نوري إيشوع, مندو. بازبداي أبرشية الجزيرة العمرية في تاريخ الكنيسة الكلدانية (in Arabic). chaldeaneurope.org. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
- Rhétoré, Jacques "Les chrétiens aux bêtes: souvenirs de la guerre sainte proclamée..," Cerf, 2005. Pages 290, 316, 321. ISBN 2-204-07243-5
- يوسف, جزراوي. استشهاد ابرشية الجزيرة ومطرانها الكلداني (in Arabic). Retrieved March 29, 2012.
- "Archived copy" كرسي أبرشية ماردين (in Arabic). Archbishopric of Syrian Catholic Church in Aleppo. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)