Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas

Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas
Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
Church	Chaldean Catholic Church
See	Babylon of the Chaldeans
Installed	July 9, 1900
Term ended	July 21, 1947
Predecessor	Audishu V Khayyath
Successor	Yousef VII Ghanima
Orders
Ordination	July 10, 1879 (Priest)
Consecration	July 24, 1892 (Bishop) by  Eliya Abulyonan
Personal details
Born	Yousef Emmanuel Thomas August 8, 1852 Alqosh
Baptised	August 8, 1852
Died	July 21, 1947(1947-07-21) (aged 94)
Residence	Iraq

Mar Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas (August 8, 1852 - July 21, 1947) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1900 until his death in 1947.

Life

He was born on August 8, 1852, in Alqosh. An ethnic Assyrian, he studied in the Ghazir Seminary in Lebanon and was ordained priest on July 10, 1879. On July 24, 1892, he was ordained Bishop of Seert, now in Turkey, by patriarch Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan. He was appointed Patriarch of the Chaldean Church on the July 9, 1900, and confirmed by the Holy See on December 17 of the same year. He presided over the Chaldean Catholic Church during World War I and World War II, including the Assyrian genocide, serving as patriarch until his death on July 21, 1947. He succeeded Patriarch Audishu V Khayyath and was succeeded by Yousef VII Ghanima.

References

• "Archbishop Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2009-01-15.^{[ self-published source ]}
• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN   9789042908765.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Audishu V Khayyath (1894–1899)	Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldean Catholic Church 1900–1946	Succeeded by Yousef VII Ghanima (1946–1958)