Ignatius Zakka I. Iwas
Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas ( Syro -Aramaic ܐ ܝ ܓ ܢ ܐ ܛ ܝ ܘ ܣ ܙ ܟ ܝ ܩ ܕ ܡ ܝ ܐ ܥ ܝ ܘ ܐ ܨ, Arabic إغناطيوس زكا الأول عيواص; born Sanharib Iwas (Arabic سنحريب عيواص ) on April 21, 1933, Mosul, Iraq, † March 21, 2014 in Kiel) was the 122nd Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch. He held office from 1980 until his death in 2014 - longer than any other Antiochian Patriarch.
Life
Sanharib Iwas was the fourth of six children of Bashir Iwas. With ten years he lost his father, with twelve of his mother. From 1946 to 1954 he studied at St. Ephrem Seminary in Mosul. On June 6, 1954, he received the monastic ordination. On 18 December 1955 he was ordained a deacon and on 17 November 1957 to the priest. From 1960, he studied English and oriental languages in New York. 1962/63 he took part as an observer for the Syrian Orthodox Church at the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church. At his consecration as Bishop of Mosul on 17 November 1963, he took the name Severius (after Severus of Antioch ). From 1967, he was responsible for the diocese of Europe. In 1969 he was appointed Archbishop of Baghdad and Basra.
On 11 July 1980, the Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church elected him Patriarch Mor Ignatius successor to the late Yaqub III. Was ordained a patriarch 122 of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the See of Peter in Antioch Mor Ignatius Zakka I Severius as Catholicos Mor Baselios through the Indian Paulose II and the archbishops of the Synod on 14 September 1980. He bore the title "Patriarch of Antioch and the whole East, head of the universal Syrian Orthodox Church" and resided in the Mor Ephrem - Seminar in Ma'arrat Saydnaya in Damascus. As Patriarch, he promoted a renewal of monasticism and intensified contacts with the Syrian Orthodox " Thomas Christians" in South India.
In 1984 there was a meeting with Pope John Paul II, after in 1971 Pope Paul VI. Patriarch Mor Ignatius Yaqub and III. had met. The statement jointly adopted contains a far-reaching mutual recognition of orthodoxy, but does not go until the start of the full Eucharist and sacramental community. For pastoral emergencies, derogations were agreed, after which members of the church may receive an sacraments, including the Eucharist, in the other church.
In Germany was the patriarch in 1993 to the inauguration of the Syrian Orthodox Church Mor Aho in Paderborn, 1998 for the consecration of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Augsburg, 2000, to the consecration of St. Jakob of Sarug monastery in Warburg, 2001 consecration of Mor Juhanun as - Kfone Church in Delmenhorst and most recently in December 2012, again in Warburg, for the consecration of Philoxenos Matthias Nayis the new Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Germany.
Because of civil war in Syria, he emigrated in 2013 to Lebanon. For medical treatment, he went to Germany, where he died in a hospital in Kiel.