Dinkha IV.
Mar Dinkha IV Khanania ( born September 15, 1935 in Derbenduk ( Darbandoki ), Iraq ) is the reigning Catholicos - Patriarch of the " Holy Catholic Apostolic Assyrian Church of the East".
Life
Mar Dinkha IV ( baptismal name Khanania ) is the son of Andreas Soro ( 1907-1999 ) and his wife Panna († 1968), a descendant of a family of hereditary (uncle - nephew ) 17 bishops of his church come from, be last in Urmia ( Iran) working great-uncle, the martyr bishop Mar Dinkha of Tis († February 23, 1915 at Urmia ). He belongs to the Assyrian Nochiya strain.
Khanania was the traditional way prepared for the takeover of the episcopate (meat renunciation of the mother during pregnancy, vegetarian diet from a young age ). He learned from 1947 to Mar Yosip Khnanisho ( 1914-1977 ), the Metropolitan and Catholicos - Patriarch of the representative in Iraq, was ordained by this Harir in 1949 a deacon, a priest in 1957 and worked from 1957 as a pastor in Abadan ( Iran) and Tehran. At the suggestion of his church ordained him there Catholicos - Patriarch Shimun XXIII. ( † 6 November 1975) on February 11, 1968 Metropolitan of Tehran Iran and full, the first in Iran since the First World War. On October 17, 1976, he was enthroned six ( and two controversial Italian ) bishops or bishop in the Anglican representatives Barnabas Church Ealing in London as Shimuns successor. Head of the electoral synod and was principal consecrator Metropolitan Mar Timothy of Malabar and India ( † 6 August 2001). Mar Dinkha IV is considered to be 120 holders of the Chair of Seleucia- Ctesiphon ( "Babylon "). First Residing in Tehran, he has been based since 1984 in the USA.
In Mar Addai II, he has a counter Patriarch in Iraq.
Work
By visiting the Soviet Union in 1981 and 1988, Mar Dinkha IV ended the permanent isolation since 1920 the local Assyrian community of the Mother Church.
On November 11, signed in 1994, Catholicos - Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV and the Roman Catholic Pope John Paul II a joint declaration on Christology that finds the unity of the two churches in the faith of Christ.
In November 1995, Mar Dinkha IV was after three decades in 1964 due to the conflict of Mar Thomas Darmo and Catholicos - Patriarch Shimun XXIII. end resulting cleavage of the Assyrian Church in India. Attempts to reach agreement with the rival Catholicos - Patriarch Addai II have so far failed.
In the winter of 2005/2006 to Mar Dinkha IV quarreled with his " ecumenical bishop" Mar Bawai Soro (born Ashur Soro ) and removed him from the episcopal office. Mar Bawai Soro and his followers were at the 2008 Chaldean Catholic sister church. Output and long-term consequences of the disputes are currently uncertain.
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