Eliya XI

Mar Eliya XI
Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
Church	Church of the East
Installed	1722
Term ended	1778
Predecessor	Eliya X
Successor	Eliya XII
Personal details
Died	April 1778
Residence	Rabban Hormizd Monastery

The ancient Rabban Hormizd Monastery, former residence of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East

Eliya XI (Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ / Elīyā, 1700 - April 1778) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1722 to 1778, with his residence in Rabban Hormizd Monastery, near Alqosh, in modern Iraq. His father, the priest Hoshaba, was the brother of the previous patriarch Eliya X (died 14 December 1722). Upon that patriarch's death, Eliya XI was elected to the patriarchal see, and enthroned on 25 December 1722.^[1]

At the beginning of the Ottoman–Persian War (1743–1746), his residence, the Patriarchal Monastery of Rabban Hormizd, was attacked and looted in 1743.^[2] Faced with frequent conflicts between two mighty Islamic empires (Ottoman and Persian), local Christians in the frontier regions were constantly exposed to danger, not only in times of war, but also during the interwar years, since local Kurdish warlords were accustomed to attack Christian communities and monasteries. Patriarch Eliya XI tried to improve the increasingly worsening position of his Christian flock, by staying loyal to Ottoman authorities, but the local administration was frequently unable to provide effective protection.^[3]

In older historiography, he was designated as Eliya XI,^[4] but later renumbered as Eliya "XII" by some authors.^[5][6] After the resolution of several chronological questions, he was designated again as Eliya XI,^[7][8][9] and that numeration is generally accepted in recent scholarly works,^{[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]} with some exceptions.^[18][19]

See also

• Patriarch of the Church of the East
• List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East
• Assyrian Church of the East

Notes

1. Wilmshurst 2000, p. 26, 29, 148, 196, 250-251.
2. Wilmshurst 2000, p. 205, 263.
3. Wilmshurst 2000, p. 28, 195, 242, 250–251, 355.
4. Malech & Malech 1910, p. 321.
5. Tisserant 1931, p. 261-263.
6. Fiey 1993, p. 39.
7. Lampart 1966, p. 64, 106.
8. Macomber 1969, p. 263-273.
9. Murre van den Berg 1999, p. 247.
10. Baum & Winkler 2000, p. 108-109, 152.
11. Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 119-120, 174.
12. Baum 2004, p. 234-235.
13. Baumer 2005, p. 250, 312.
14. Murre van den Berg 2006, p. 527.
15. Hage 2007, p. 473.
16. Burleson & Rompay 2011, p. 481-491.
17. Jakob 2014, p. 101.
18. Wilmshurst 2011, p. 477.
19. Wilmshurst 2019, p. 804.

References

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• Murre van den Berg, Heleen (2008). "Classical Syriac, Neo-Aramaic, and Arabic in the Church of the East and the Chaldean Church between 1500 and 1800". Aramaic in Its Historical and Linguistic Setting. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 335–352. ISBN 9783447057875.
• Tisserant, Eugène (1931). "L'Église nestorienne". Dictionnaire de théologie catholique. Vol. 11. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. pp. 157–323.
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• Wilmshurst, David (2019). "The patriarchs of the Church of the East". The Syriac World. London: Routledge. pp. 799–805. ISBN 9781138899018.

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Preceded by Eliya X (1700–1722)	Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East Eliya line (Alqosh) (1722–1778)	Succeeded by Eliya XII (1778–1804)