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TABLE OR TREE OF LIFE
OF
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION OF THE CATHOLICOS
PATRIARCHS OF THE CHURCH OF THE EAST,
NAMELY, THOSE WHO SERVED ON THE SEE
OF THE CHURCH OF KHUKY,
IN SELEUCIA-CTESIPHON, BABYLON
MARAN ESHU M’SHIKHA
(Our Lord Jesus Christ)
Shimun Keepa (St. Simon Peter), who wrote his Catholic Epistle from Babylon.
I. Peter, 1.1 and 5.13.
YEAR
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Tooma Shlikha (St. Thomas), who after establishing Church in Mesopotamia, Persia and their environment, went to India
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33 -77
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Bar Tulmay
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33 -
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Addai (or Taddai) Shlikha
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33 - 45
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Agai, disciple of Addai
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{both from the seventy disciples}
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45 - 81
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Mari, disciple of Addai
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48 - 81
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Abris, relative of the virgin Mary
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90 -107
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Oraham I, of Kashkar
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130 - 152
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Yacob 1, relative of Yosip the Carpenter
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172 - 190
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Ebid M’shikha
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191 - 203
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Akhu d’Awu
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205 - 220
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Shakhlupa of Kashkar
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224 - 244
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Papa Bar Gaggai
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247 - 326
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Shimun Bar Sabbai
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328 - 341
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Shahdost
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345 - 347
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Bar Bashmin
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350 - 358
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Tumarsa
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383 - 393
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Qaiyuma
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393 - 399
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Eskhaq
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399 - 411
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Akhkhi
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411 - 415
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Yoalaha I
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415 - 420
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Maana
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420 -
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Qarabukht
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421 -
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Dadishu
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421 - 456
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Bawai or Babu
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457 - 484
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Aqaq
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484 - 496
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Bawai
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496 - 502
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Sheela
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505 - 523
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Narsai
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{ dual Patriarchate }
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524 - 535
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Elisha
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524 - 538
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Polos
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539 - 540
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Yosip
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552 - 567
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Khazqiyil
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570 - 581
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Eshuyow I, Arzunaya
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581 - 595
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Sorishu I Garmaqaya
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596 - 604
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Greghor, Partaya
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605 - 608
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Eshuyow II (Gdalaya or Arab)
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628 - 644
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Mar Immeh
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647 - 650
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Eshuyow III, Kdayawaya
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650 - 660
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Gewargis I
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681 - 684
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Yokhannan I, Bar Marta
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684 - 692
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Khnaishu I
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686 - 693
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Yokhannan II, Garba
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693 - 694
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Sliwazkha
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714 - 728
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Pethyon
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731 - 740
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Awa
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741 - 751
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Surin
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752 - 754
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Yacob II
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754 - 773
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Khnanishu
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The monument in China was erected during his reign
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774 - 778
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Timotheus I
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780 - 820
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Eshu-barnon
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820 - 824
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Gewargis II
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825 - 832
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Soreshu II
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832 - 836
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Oraham II, Margaya
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837 - 850
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Teadasis (or Theodoros)
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850 - 852
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Sargis, Suwaya
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860 - 872
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Annush d’beth Garmay
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873 - 884
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Yokhannan III, Bar Narsay
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884 - 892
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Yokhannan IV, (nephew of Theodoros)
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892 - 898
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Yokhannan V, Bar Ogare
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900 - 905
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Oraham III, Abraza
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906 - 937
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Ammanoel I
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937 - 949
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Esrail Karkhaya
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961 - 962
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Odishu Garmaqaya
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963 - 986
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Mari Aturaya
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967 - 1000
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Yokhannan VI (Yoannis)
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1001 - 1012
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Yokhannan VII (Bar Nazuk)
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1013 - 1022
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Eshuyow IV
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1023 - 1027
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Elia I (Terhan)
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1028 - 1049
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Yokhannan VIII (Bar Tragala)
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1049 - 1057
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Soreshu III (Bar Zanbur)
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1057 - 1072
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Odishu II (Bar Ars) Aturaya
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1072 - 1090
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Makkikha I (Bar Shlemon)
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1092 - 1109
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Elia II (Bar Maqli)
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1111 - 1132
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Bar Soma (Of Suwa)
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1133 - 1135
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Bar Gabbara
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1135 - 1136
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Odishu III (Nephew of Elia II)
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1138 - 1147
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Eshuyow V (from Beth Zodai, Baladaya)
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1148 - 1175
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Elia III (Abukhalim)
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1176 - 1190
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Yoalaha II (Bar Qaiyuma)
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1191 - 1222
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Sorishu IV
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1222 - 1226
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Sorishu V (from Baghdad)
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1226 - 1256
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*Makkikha II
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1257 - 1265
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Dinkha I (Arbilaya, i.e., from Arbil)
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1265 - 1281
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Yoalaha III (Bar Turkaye -Turkish by race)
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1281 - 1318
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*Timotheus II (Arbilaya, I. e. from Arbil)
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1318 - 1328
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Dinkha II
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1329 - 1359
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Dinkha III
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1359 - 1368
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Shimun III
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1369 - 1392
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Shimun IV
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1403 - 1407
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Elia III
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1407 - 1420
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Shimun V
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1420 - 1447
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*Shimun VI
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1448 - 1490
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Elia V
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1491 - 1504
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Shimun VII
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1505 - 1538
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Eshuyow Shimun VIII
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1538 - 1551
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Dinkha Shimun IX (Bar Mama)
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1552 - 1558
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Yoalaha Shimun X
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1558 - 1580
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Dinkha Shimun XI
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1580 - 1600
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Elia Shimun XII
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1600 - 1653
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Eshuyow Shimun XIII
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1653 - 1690
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Yoalaha Shimun XIV
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1690 - 1692
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Dinkha Shimun XV
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1692 - 1700
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Shlemon (Sulaiman) Shimun XVI
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1700 - 1740
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Mikhail (Mukhattis) Shimun XVII
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1740 - 1741
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Yonan (Yuna) Shimun XVIII
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1740 - 1820
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Oraharn Shimun XIX
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1820 - 1860
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Ruwil Shimun XX
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1860 - 1903
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Binyamin Shimun XXI
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1903 - 1918
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Polos Shimun XXII
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1918 - 1920
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Eshai Shimun XXIII
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1920 - 1975
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Khanania Dinkha IV
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1976 -
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The above list has been taken from several compilers of the Apostolic succession of the Church of the East, and which I have consulted and compared with great care. The following are among the main sources which I have thus consulted:
I. The table of succession of the Catholicos Patriarchs of the East, published in the book of Marganitha, by Qashisha Yosip of Kelaita, Mosul, Iraq, 1924.
2. A Historical Account of the Patriarchs of the East, by Qashisha Patros Narsay of Mosul, 1905.
3. A Historical Account of the Patriarchs of the East, by Amro Bar Mattay, published in Rome 1896.
4. A Historical Account of the Patriarchs of the East, by Qashisha Yosip Tupakchi.
5. The History of the Assyrian Church, by Dr. W. A. Wigram, published in London, England.
6. History of the Ancient Nation and the Church of the East, by Shamasha Gewargis David Malik of Supurghan, and published by Qashisha Nestoris Malik, USA, 1910.
7. The Book of Governors, by Mar Tooma of Margy.
8. The Chronography of Bar Eoraya (Bar Hebraeus) translated from Aramaic (Syriac) original by E. A. Wallis Budge, published by Oxford University Press.
9. Chronology, published by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Press, Urmi, Iran, 1907.
10. On the succession of the Patriarchal House, by Mar Elia of Alkosh, Iraq.
In the present Table of Succession, I have listed the dates most acceptable to the majority of the various authors. For example, Mar Shimun Bar Sabbai; served on the Patriarchal See; according to the Book of Marganitha, from the year 320—330, according to Amro, from 326-344, according to Patros, from 328-339, according to Tupankchi, from 323—341, according to Wigram, 328—340, according to Shamasha Gewargis Malik, unil 341, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Chronology, 332—339. The date, therefore, agreed upon by the majority of these sources in the case of Mar Shimun Bar Sabbai is 328—341, and this I have recorded in this list. In like manner, I have also acted in the case of all the Catholicos Patriarchs of the East.
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