Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek
Mor Julius Yeshu ( Isa ) Çiçek ( born March 25, 1942 in Kafro ' Elayto in Tur Abdin ( southeastern Turkey ), † 29 October, 2005 Dusseldorf ) was Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Diocese of Central Europe and the Benelux countries.
Life
Yeshu Çiçek was the son of the Syrian Orthodox priest Barsaumo (1908-1993) and his wife Bath Qyomo Sayde († 1991). At age nine, he went to the seminary of Deyr -ul- Za'faran, where he studied Syriac, Turkish, Arabic and theology. After he was ordained a deacon in 1958, he was secretary of the later Metropolitan Mor Philoxenus Hanna Dolabani. Later he entered the monastery of Mor Cyriacus in the region Bsheriye ( Bitlis ) and engaged in the search of surviving Syriac and Armenian Christians after the genocide of 1915.
In 1960 he became a novice in the Mor Gabriel Monastery and taught in seminary. As abbot Shabo Guenes died in 1962, Yeshu Çiçek was elected abbot and consecrated in 1969 by Mor Ephrem Iwannis Bilgic, the Bishop of Tur Abdin, a priest. After living in Damascus, at the seminary of Mor Ephrem on Atshane in Lebanon and the Holy Land, he came to Germany, where he took over the pastoral care of the Syrians in the diaspora. After a layover in 1975-1977 in the United States, on the advice of the local Metropolitan Mor Athanasius Yeshu Samuel, he returned to Europe, after Hengelo. In 1977, the Holy Synod to him Patriarchal Vicar for the new Diocese of Central and Eastern Europe. He built a hall for a new Syriac Orthodox Church of St. John the Evangelist, the. Patriarch Mor Ignatius by the later James III was dedicated. Çiçek 1978 began with the release of the new news magazine of the Syrian Orthodox Diocese of Central Europe Kolo Suryoyo.
On 24 June 1979, Dayroyo Yeshu Çiçek in Hengelo Archbishop of the Syrian Orthodox Diocese of Central Europe by Patriarch Jacob III. consecrated with the name Mor Julius. In 1984, Mor Julius acquired the former Catholic monastery of St. Ephrem in Losser, Netherlands, and certain it is the seat of the archbishop. The church had three large monasteries near Enschede in the Netherlands, in Arth in Switzerland and Warburg in Germany. In founded by Çiçek monasteries he built schools that train clergy in the tradition of their church.
Mor Julius published major scientific contributions to the church in the bar Hebraeus -Verlag, which published over 100 books related to the Syrian Orthodox Liturgy, Bible, history, etc. in Syriac and in European languages.
Mor Julius participated in ecumenical dialogues with the Catholic Church in the Pro Oriente and accompanied Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas during his historic visit to Rome in 1984, in which a Joint Declaration was signed by Pope John Paul II.
Çiçek bishop was buried the Syrians in Losser -Glane (Netherlands) on November 5, 2005 to his diocesan seat in the St. Ephrem Monastery.