Audishu V Khayyath

Audishu V Khayyath
Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
Church	Chaldean Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Babylon
See	Babylon of the Chaldeans
Installed	October 28, 1894
Term ended	November 06, 1899
Predecessor	Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan
Successor	Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas
Orders
Ordination	1855 (Priest)
Consecration	23 Sept 1860 (Bishop) by Joseph Audo
Personal details
Born	Georges Ebed-Iesu Khayyath October 15, 1827
Died	November 6, 1899(1899-11-06) (aged 72)
Residence	Iraq

Mar Audishu V, (Ebed-Jesu V), Georges Khayyath (or Abdisho V, Giwargis Hayyat) (Arabic: مار جرجيس عبد يشوع الخامس خياط) (October 15, 1827 – November 6, 1899) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1894 to his death in 1899. He was also an Aramaic-language scholar.

He is remembered also as editor of the Mosul Edition of the Chaldean Peshitta. He wrote a book titled Romanorum Pontificum Primatus.

Life

He was born on October 15, 1827, in Mossul. He studied in the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome and was ordained priest in 1855. On 23 September 1860 he was ordained Bishop of Amadiyah, Iraq, by Patriarch Joseph Audo.^[1] He was the patriarchal vicar of Mossul from 1863 to 1870 and metropolitan of Amid from 1874 to 1894. He was appointed Patriarch of the Chaldean Church on October 28, 1894, and served till his death on November 6, 1899. He died and was buried at the church of Mary mother of sorrows in Baghdad, modern day Iraq. He replaced Patriarch Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan and was followed by Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas.

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References

Sources

• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
• "Archbishop Audishu V (Georges Ebed-Iesu) Khayyath". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2008-12-08.

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