Timothy II of Seleucia-Ctesiphon

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Timothy II
Patriarch of All the East
Church Church of the East
See Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed1318
Term endedc. 1332
Predecessor Yahballaha III
Successor Denha II
Other post(s) Metropolitan of Erbil
Personal details
Born13th century
Diedc. 1332

Mar Timothy II (also Timotheos II) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1318 to c. 1332. He became leader of the church at a time of profound external stress due to loss of favor with the Mongol rulers of Persia.

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Eleven bishops were present at Timothy's consecration in 1318: the metropolitans Joseph of ʿIlam, ʿAbdishoʿ of Nisibis and Shemʿon of Mosul, and the bishops Shemʿon of Beth Garmaï, ʿShemon of Tirhan, Shemʿon of Balad, Yohannan of Beth Waziq, Yohannan of Shigar, ʿAbdishoʿ of Hnitha, Isaac of Beth Daron and Ishoʿyahb of Tella and Barbelli (Marga). Timothy himself had been metropolitan of Erbil before his election as patriarch. [1]

One of Timothy's first acts as patriarch was to call a synod in February 1318 and to affirm the Nomocanon of Abdisho of Nisibis as a source of ecclesiastical law. The canons of this synod were the last to have been recorded in the Church of the East before the nineteenth century. [2]

Timothy wrote an important treatise on the sacraments of the Church, [3] part of which has been translated into English.

See also

Notes

  1. Assemani, BO, iii. i. 567–80
  2. David Wilmshurst, The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, CSCO 582, Subsidia 104 (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), p.18.
  3. Web page about Vatican Syriac ms.151, which contains the text of Timothy's work on the sacraments.

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Church of the East titles
Preceded by
Yahballaha III
(12811317)
Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
1318–c.1332
Succeeded by
Vacant
(c.1332-c.1336)
Denha II
(1336/7-1381/2)