Yohannan VIII. Hormizd
Yohannan Hormizd (* 1760 in Alqosh; † August 16, 1838 in Mosul ) also known as John, or John Youhannas Hormez, was from 1830 to 1838 as VIII Yohannan Hormizd Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans.
Life
Yohannan Hormizd was born in 1760 as the son of a deacon Hanna Hormizd. His uncle was the patriarch of Alqosh, he had in 1744 established a natural succession and determined a nephew as his successor. As a result of family disagreements, the Patriarch raised to the specified successor. He determined in 1776 the 16 -year-old Yohannan successor and consecrated him bishop. When the Patriarch died in 1778, Yohannan was amended by certain of him as the successor cousin, who Ellias ( Eliya ) XIII. Denkha called forced out of the patriarchal see of the Church of the East.
The competitors
As a result of familial inheritance rights in addition to this inheritance dispute also arose a belief conflict between the Pope and the Patriarch. Ellias XIII. Denkha had indeed agreed to the Catholic faith but expressed no official union agreements with the Holy See in Rome. Contrary to the acting Patriarch bishop Yohannan Hormizd aimed at the faith union with Rome. The decision of Rome was, however, in favor of the incumbent patriarch Yohannan and 1779 voted " against Patriarch ", thus in 1780 came the division of the Patriarchate.
Yohannan was predominantly recognized by the Christian population in the region of Mosul, here also included five bishops to his followers. Through the followers of the Patriarch Ellias XIII. Yohannan was arrested and imprisoned for three months in Amadiyah. The Holy See in Rome as patriarch Yohannan not confirmed but gave him the office of Metropolitan of Mosul, at the same time in 1783 Ellias XIII. confirmed in his office.
In the years 1791-1793, the relationship to Rome and improved Yohannan was the patriarchal administrator of amide, (present-day Turkey Diyarbakir ) appointed. However, the relationship to Rome deteriorated again when Yohannan in 1798, was ordained a bishop without Roman dispensation, an Indian priest of the Syro - Malabar Catholics. To make matters were, of his person, negative mission reports that had been sent by his opponent to Rome.
The fight
As Ellias XIII. died in 1804, joined the Bishop of Mosul Augustine Hindi as the next competitor on. He and his followers doubted that Yohannans Union to have been with the Catholicism out of pure conviction rather Yohannan should have sought the union with Rome as a possible means of power.
Since 1808 was the, the patriarchal family Hormizd belonging, has been taken over by the monastery monk Gabriel Dambo of Mardin, a staunch opponent of Yohannan. There followed a long-standing power struggle with detention and mutual depositions. 1818 Rome appointed Augustine Hindi patriarch, who from then on until 1827 when Joseph V. led the Eastern Churches.
After the dissolution of the Catholic Patriarchate of Diyarbakir (1830 ) received Yohannen Hormizd, officially the title of " Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans " awarded. His first two successor, Nicholas and Joseph Zaya VI. Audo, although came into conflict with Rome and fought to the Patriarch rights and jurisdiction, however, submitted themselves ultimately.
Patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd
After the death of Joseph V. in 1827 a new era began, Gabriel Dambo assumed the official leadership of the monastery and Joseph Audo, who should be his successor later, was appointed Bishop of Mosul. After the mediation of power struggles by two papal delegates Yohannan was bishop of Amadiyah and took over the seat of the Metropolitan of Mosul. On July 5, 1830 Yohannan was honored by Pope Pius VIII formally titled Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans. In the tenure of Yohannan VIII the seat of a Roman apostolic vicar was in Mosul, for the protection and preservation of patriarchy, furnished. Simultaneously, the nepotism, the family succession guarantees was by the Pope prevented and prohibited. The renewed attempt to introduce a relative in the succession was stifled by the establishment of a patriarchal Coadjutor, the Bishop and later successor Nicholas Zaya, in the bud.