Yosip Khnanisho

Mar Yosip Khnanisho X. (* 1893, † July 3, 1977 in Baghdad ) was a Metropolitan and patriarchy administrator of the autocephalous Eastern Syrian " Church of the East ".

Khnanisho ( Hnanišoc ) was for generations the name of the acting bishop metropolitans ( Matran ) of Rustaqa and Shamezdin of Nochiya tribe in Hakkari region. He appeared in the village of Deira at the former monastery Mar Isho ( = Hnanišoc ), whose name it bears. Ten metropolitans in a row came from the same family ( Beth d' Matran ). As the only remaining Resident hierarch with the rank of archbishop, was one of his honorary duties ordination of the Catholicos - Patriarch of Qudshanis.

Mar Yosip Knanisho was the nephew and designated successor ( Natar kursi ) his uncle Mar Eskhaq ( Isaac ) Khnanisho IX. (* 1848, amt 1884 to 1918 ). Consecrated in 1912 by this priest, Yosip represented his uncle in the World War II years from 1914 to 1916 at the seat of the Patriarch in Qudshanis. There ordained him Mar Shimun XXI. on August 23, 1914 Bishop (last episcopal ordination at the Cathedral in Qudshanis ). After Shimuns violent death Mar Yosip was Mitzelebrant his uncle at the Patriarch consecration of Mar Shimun XXII. 1918 in Urmia (Iran). In the following panicked flight from there to Iraq in 1918 Mar Eskhaq died and was buried in Kermanshah. When his successor received his nephew Yosip on 2 December 1918 in the UK St. George 's Church to Baghdad by Mar Polos Shimun XXII. († 1920), the consecration as Metropolitan of Rustaqa. In 1920, he took himself the ordination of Mar Shimun XXIII. , His underage nephew, Catholicos - Patriarch of the " Church of the East ".

The forced exile of Mar Shimun XXIII. in Europe and later in the United States made ​​Mar Khnanisho X. From 1933 to senior representatives and de facto head of his church in Iraq and throughout the East, especially since the three remaining members of the Assyrian episcopate a distant relationship to Shimun XXIII. wont. After leaving the refugee camp, he moved in with his compatriots from Shamezdin in northern Iraq and resided until 1961 in the village of Harir. Subsequently, he worked in the state capital Baghdad. For the survival of two traditional episcopal houses he made by the Episcopal Ordination of Mar Isho Sargis of Jilu (14 May 1951 † December 19, 1966 ), Mar Andreos Yawallaha for Barwar (July 14, 1957; † 17 June 1973) and the juvenile Mar Sargis Yosip of Jilu ( March 2, 1968; officiates in Baghdad ), each as successor of their late uncle. For Urmiah and Iran, he ordered on April 19, 1953 Mar Youkhanan Philipose a bishop and for that after several years Sedisvakanz on February 11, 1962 a successor by Mar Dinkha.

In the troubled situation after the surprising marriage Mar Shimuns XXIII. († 1975), he was appointed in 1973 to patriarchy administrator. One of his students and relatives, Mar Dinkha of Tehran, became in 1976 the office of the first time in centuries, again ordered by choice Catholicos patriarch of the autocephalous " Church of the East ".

Mar Yosip worked 63 years as a bishop and Metropolitan. Highly respected as a public official and person to have in his lifetime, he is now revered by many Christian Assyrians as a saint. He is buried in the church to Baghdad Mart Maryam. His liturgical memorial day is celebrated annually on the second Sunday of July.