Eugene Manna

Mar Jacques-Eugene Manna (Syriac ܝܥܩܘܒ ܐܘܓܝܢ ܡܢܢܐ "Yaqub Augin Manna") was bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Life

He was born in 1867 in Baqofah in Ninveh province in northern Iraq, with the baptismal name of Yawsep (Joseph). He was ordained priest on August 15, 1889 by Mar Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan and then consecrated bishop in 1902 (together with Addai Scher) until in his mysterious disappearance in February 1928 when several days later his body was found in the Tigris river.

Publications

• A Grammar of the Aramaic Language, Mosul 1896.
• Chaldean (Syriac)-Arabic Dictionary, Mosul 1900 (re-edited by R. J. Bidawid, Beirut 1975).
• Marge pegyānāye d-mardutā d-Ārāmāye / Morceaux choisis de littérature araméenne, 2 volumes, Mosul 1901.

External links

• The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
• Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition