Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil (also Simon XVIII Rouel or Rowil) served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1861 to 1903, succeeding his uncle Shimun XVII Abraham.[1]


Shimun XVIII Rubil
His Holiness
Shimun XVIII Rubil in 1897
ChurchAssyrian Church of the East
DiocesePatriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
SeeHoly Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed1861
Term ended1903
PredecessorMar Shimun XVII Abraham
SuccessorMar Shimun XIX Benyamin
Orders
RankCatholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born
Died1903
Qodshanis, Hakkari
NationalityAssyrian (Ottoman)
DenominationChristian, Assyrian Church of the East
ResidenceQodshanis, Hakkari

He led the church from Qodshanis, in southeastern Turkey. In 1869, he received an invitation from the Vatican to attend the First Vatican Council as an observer, but he did not accept the invitation,[2] and he also rejected other initiatives for the union with the Catholic Church.[3] The Catholicos-Patriarch died on March 16, 1903, and was succeeded by Shimun XIX Benyamin.

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References

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  1. ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 129, 175.
  2. ^ Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 129-130.
  3. ^ Wilmshurst 2000, p. 35-36.

Sources

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  • Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192.
  • Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris. ISBN 9781845111151.
  • Coakley, James F. (1992). The Church of the East and the Church of England: A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198267447.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.
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Assyrian Church of the East titles
Preceded by Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
1861–1903
Succeeded by