Addai II Giwargis

His Holiness Mar Addai II
Catholicos Patriarch of the Ancient Church of The East
Native name	ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ ܬܪܝܢܐ
Church	Ancient Church of the East ܥܕܬܐ ܥܬܝܩܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ
Archdiocese	Patriarchal Archdiocese of Baghdad and Basra
See	Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	20 February 1972
Predecessor	Mar Thoma Darmo (1968–1969)
Orders
Ordination	20 February 1972 at St. Zaia Cathedral (Baghdad, Iraq)
Rank	Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Birth name	Shlemun Giwargis
Born	(1948-01-06)6 January 1948 Mosul, Iraq
Died	11 February 2022(2022-02-11) (aged 74) Baghdad, Iraq
Nationality	Assyrian
Denomination	Ancient Church of the East
Occupation	Clergy
Previous post	Metropolitan of Iraq (September 1968)

Mar Addai II (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ ܬܪܝܢܐ; born Shlemun Giwargis (Syriac: ܫܠܝܡܘܢ ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ) (6 January 1948 – 11 February 2022)^[a] was an Iraqi Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East. He lived in the Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in Baghdad, Iraq.^[1]

On 11 February 2022, Addai II Giwargis died in Baghdad, Iraq at the age of 74.^[2]

Notes

1. Some sources cite 1948.

References

1. "St. Mary's Cathedral, the home of His Holiness Mar Addai II, Patriarch of The Ancient Church of the East, was bombed Sunday morning". Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
2. Irak: Assyrischer Patriarch Mar Addai II. Giwargis verstorben (in German)