Philippe-Jacques Abraham
| Philippe-Jacques Abraham | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Gazarta | |
| See | Eparchy of Gazarta |
| 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 Telkef, Mosul vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 28 August 1915 (aged 67) Cizre, Diyarbekir vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
Philippe-Jacques Abraham (Syriac: ܐܒܪܗܡ ܦܝܠܝܦܘܣ ܝܥܩܘܒ) (Orahim Pillipus Yaqub) (3 January 1848 – 28 August 1915) was an ethnic Assyrian bishop and martyr 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 for the Syro-Malabar Church in British India by Patriarch Yawsep VI on 25 July 1875. Seven years later he was consecrated as a bishop for the Chaldeans of the Jazira region.[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]
See also
- Addai Scher
References
- Back to citation "Bishop Philippe-Jacques Abraham, O.A.O.C. †". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- Back to citation نوري إيشوع, مندو. بازبداي أبرشية الجزيرة العمرية في تاريخ الكنيسة الكلدانية (in Arabic). chaldeaneurope.org. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- Back to citation Rhétoré, Jacques "Les chrétiens aux bêtes: souvenirs de la guerre sainte proclamée.," Cerf, 2005, pp. 290, 316, 321; ISBN 2-204-07243-5
- Back to citation كرسي أبرشية ماردين (in Arabic). Archbishopric of Syrian Catholic Church in Aleppo. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2012.