Philippe-Jacques Abraham | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of the Diocese of Gazireh | |
| See | Diocese of Gazireh |
| In office | 10 February 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 |
| Died | 28 August 1915 (aged 67) Cizre |
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]
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 consecrated as a bishop by the Syro-Malabar Church in British 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 the local Kurdish 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]
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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.
- ↑ كرسي أبرشية ماردين (in Arabic). Archbishopric of Syrian Catholic Church in Aleppo. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2012.