Elias Mellus

Mar Elias Mellus (Milos, Milus ) (* September 13, 1831 in Mardin, † February 16, 1908 in Mardin ) was a bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

First, a monk at the monastery Alqosh, from June 5, 1864 Bishop of Aqra, he worked from 1874 to 1882 in India, Trichur. On behalf of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Joseph VI. Audo (1848-1878), he sought in vain, as not supported by Rome and even fought to achieve the reunification of the Catholic Thomas Christians with their mother church, namely the " Patriarchate of Babylon" as the successor of the ancient Church Catholic Seleucia- Ctesiphon Catholicosate.

The experiment had a schism result: some of the followers of Mellus left Catholicism and entered 1907/ 09 of the autocephalous " Church of the East " at which ordered the Assyrians Mar Abimalek Timothy as Metropolitan of India. This group gained national importance when in 1968 her then- Metropolitan, Mar Thomas Darmo, to counter the patriarch Mar Shimun XXIII. order made ​​.

1882 returned to Mesopotamia, Elias Mellus subdued after some hesitation, 1889 Roman will. In 1893 he received the Chaldean Catholic cathedra of Mardin, as their bishop, he died. He wrote a "History of the Eastern Chaldean Church" ( from the early to mid 6th century).

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