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Mar ShemVorlage:Translon VI (also written Shimun VI) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1504 until his death on 5 August 1538.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn Shemon is credited with revising the East Syriac Rite, replacing commemorations of traditional saints and martyrs with new ones, especially for those who had founded monasteries.Vorlage:Sfn Following his death, he was succeeded as Patriarch by his brother Shemon VII Ishoyahb, who had been natar kursya (designated successor) throughout his reign; since the reign of Shemon IV the role of Patriarch had been passed hereditarily.Vorlage:Sfn Shemon VI was buried alongside other Patriarchs of his era at Rabban Hormizd Monastery near Mosul, his residence while he had been Patriarch; his epitaph, recorded by Vosté, was inscribed by a priest named Israel.Vorlage:Sfn
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BearbeitenBibliography
Bearbeiten- Wilhelm Baum, Dietmar W. Winkler: The Church of the East: A Concise History. Routledge-Curzon, London-New York 2003, ISBN 978-1-134-43019-2 (google.com).
- Samuel Burleson, Lucas Van Rompay: Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Gorgias Press, Piscataway, NJ 2011, List of Patriarchs of the Main Syriac Churches in the Middle East, S. 481–491 (bethmardutho.org).
- Heleen H. L. Murre van den Berg: The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. In: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, 1999, S. 235–264, doi:10.31826/hug-2010-020119 (degruyter.com [PDF]).
- David Wilmshurst: The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers, Louvain 2000, ISBN 978-90-429-0876-5 (google.com).
- David Wilmshurst: The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. East & West Publishing Limited, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-907318-04-7 (google.com).
- David Wilmshurst: The Syriac World. Routledge, London 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-89901-8, The patriarchs of the Church of the East, S. 799–805 (google.com).
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