Philippe-Jacques Abraham

Philippe-Jacques Abraham
Bishop of the Diocese of Gazireh
See Diocese of Gazireh
In office 10 Feb 1882August 28, 1915
Predecessor Joseph VI Audo
Successor Suppressed
Orders
Ordination 1873
Consecration 10 Feb 1882
by Joseph VI Audo
Personal details
Born (1848-01-03)January 3, 1848
Telkef
Died 28 August 1915(1915-08-28) (aged 67)
Cizre

Mar 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 ordained as a bishop of the Syrian Malabr Church in 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 a Muslim 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

  1. "Bishop Philippe-Jacques Abraham, O.A.O.C. †". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
  2. نوري إيشوع, مندو. بازبداي أبرشية الجزيرة العمرية في تاريخ الكنيسة الكلدانية (in Arabic). chaldeaneurope.org. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
  3. Rhétoré, Jacques "Les chrétiens aux bêtes: souvenirs de la guerre sainte proclamée..," Cerf, 2005. Pages 290, 316, 321. ISBN 2-204-07243-5
  4. يوسف, جزراوي. استشهاد ابرشية الجزيرة ومطرانها الكلداني (in Arabic). Retrieved March 29, 2012.
  5. كرسي أبرشية ماردين (in Arabic). Archbishopric of Syrian Catholic Church in Aleppo. Retrieved March 29, 2012.


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