Eliya II of Seleucia-Ctesiphon

Eliya II Bar Moqli (Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1111 to 1132.

Mar Eliya II
Patriarch of All the East
Church	Church of the East
See	Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	1111
Term ended	1132
Predecessor	Makkikha I
Successor	Bar Sawma
Personal details
Born	Eliya bar Moqli
Died	1132

Sources

Brief accounts of Eliya's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (floruit 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the fourteenth-century Nestorian writers [ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Amr and Sliba. A more substantial account is given by the twelfth-century historian Mari.

See also

• List of patriarchs of the Church of the East

Sources

• Abbeloos, J. B., and Lamy, T. J., Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (3 vols, Paris, 1877)
• Assemani, J. A., De Catholicis seu Patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum (Rome, 1775)
• Brooks, E. W., Eliae Metropolitae Nisibeni Opus Chronologicum (Rome, 1910)
• Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria I: Amri et Salibae Textus (Rome, 1896)
• Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria II: Maris textus arabicus et versio Latina (Rome, 1899)
• Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.