Ecclesiastical Chronicle, Volume 2

Continued Series of Jacobite Patriarchs.

1) Cf. Assemanus, Bibl. Or., II, 386, 468 sqq.; Dissert. de monophys., 159.

2) Payne Smith, Catal. codd. syrr. Bibl. Bodl., 202.

Ignatius, who is also Noe of Bacupheh from Bacupheh, from Mount Lebanon, bishop of Emesa, then Maphrian, finally, after the death of Bar-Sila, was appointed patriarch at the beginning of November of the year of Christ 1493. Under him, the Tur Abdin people were led by the last patriarch, Ignatius or Masud; for when he had abdicated his patriarchal dignity in 1495, he secluded himself in a certain monastery, after he had forbidden his followers, under penalty of excommunication, from ordaining a new patriarch, and had ordered them to obey the patriarch of Mardin as the legitimate one. Thus, one patriarch presided over all Syrian Jacobites: Ignatius Noe, who died in the city of Hamath on July 28, 1509.

3) Rosen and Forshall, Catal. codd. orient. Musaei Britan., 89; Wright, Catal. of syriac. manusc., 625.

Ignatius, who is also Josue from the castle of Kelat. This man, ordained patriarch immediately after the death of his predecessor, apostatized from the Christian faith in the year of Christ 1517 to embrace the Mohammedan sect. Afterward, led by repentance, he fled to Cyprus, where they say he repented such that, prostrating himself before the doors of the church, he would submit his neck to the feet of the people entering and leaving. Finally, restored to his dignity, he departed from this life.

Ignatius, who is also Jacob of Damascus.

Ignatius, who is also David of Maadan.

4) Rosen and Forshall, lib. cit., 61, 95.

Ignatius, who is also Abdallah from the castle of Atta near Mardin. He flourished in the years 1528–1536.

Ignatius, who is also Nehemet; or Nehemetalla of Mardin, from the family of John Bar-Sila, formerly patriarch. He flourished in the year of Christ 1560. But when he had abjured the Christian religion for the Mohammedan, he repented of his deed and betook himself to Rome under Gregory XIII. Petrus Stroza reports that he was the author who persuaded the same Supreme Pontiff Gregory to send Leonard Abel, bishop of Sidon, in the year of Christ 1583, to his brother David, who was then presiding as patriarch over the Jacobites.

5) Payne Smith, lib. cit., 562; Assemanus, loc. cit.

Ignatius, formerly Petrus David, or David Schah of Mardin, brother of Nehemet, who ruled the Jacobite church from the year 1573 to the year 1589.

Ignatius, formerly Pilatus of Mansur, who had been Maphrian under Ignatius David.

Ignatius, alias Abdalgani, brother of the preceding. In the manuscripts of the British Museum, there is mention of a certain Jacobite patriarch by the name of Ignatius who was living in the year 1598.