Shimun XVIII Rubil

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.

Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil
His Holiness
Shimun XVIII Rubil in 1897
Church	Assyrian Church of the East
Diocese	Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
See	Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	1861
Term ended	1903
Predecessor	Mar Shimun XVII Abraham
Successor	Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin
Orders
Rank	Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born	Qodshanis, Hakkari
Died	1903 Qodshanis, Hakkari
Nationality	Assyrian (Ottoman)
Denomination	Christian, Assyrian Church of the East
Residence	Qodshanis, 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, and he also rejected other initiatives for the union with the Catholic Church. The Catholicos-Patriarch died on March 16, 1903, and was succeeded by Shimun XIX Benyamin.

See also

• List of Patriarchs of the Assyrian Church of the East

Sources

• 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.

External links

• Official site of the Assyrian Church of the East