Diocese of Selmas

In the 16th century, the city of Selmas became the residence of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Simon VIII, who lived in a nearby monastery located in the village of Khosrova. The successive line of Simon VIII was interrupted in 1709 due to the fact that the Chaldean Catholic patriarch returned to the Nestorian church . In the same year, the Holy See established the eponymous Chaldean diocese in Selmaz.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the number of Chaldean Catholics in Selmas was about 10 thousand people. In 1983, due to a significant reduction in the number of believers, the Selmas diocese was joined to the metropolis of Urmia.

• Bishop Ishoyab I (1709-1752);
• Bishop Ishoyab II (? - 1777);
• Bishop Ishoyab Shemon (1777-10.04.1789);
• Bishop Ishoyab Yuhannan Gabriel (8.11.1795 - 07.15.1833);
• Bishop Ishoyab Melchizedek (1883–1842);
  • Nicholas I Yeshaya (1842–1846), patriarch and apostolic administrator;
• Bishop Givargis Augustin Barshina (July 11, 1848 - 1889);
• Bishop Isaac Jaballaha Hudabahash (October 1, 1894-1908);
• Bishop Peter Aziz Ho (01/25/1910 - 01/16/1924);
• Bishop Isaac-Yesu-Yab Hudabash (10/6/1930 - 08/08/1939);
• Bishop Abel Zaya (December 6, 1939 - 03/18/1951);
• Bishop Zaya Dakhta (1951 - August 15, 1972);
• Bishop Samuel Houseis OAOC ^[1] (May ^1, 1974 - June 14, 1981);
• Bishop Thomas Meram (11/30/1983 - present).

• Annuario Pontificio , Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2003, ISBN 88-209-7422-3
• J. Tfinkdji, "L'Eglise chaldéenne autrefois et aujourd'hui" , A. Battandier, Annuaire Pontifical Catholique , XVII, 1914, pp. 511-515
• J.-B. Chabot, "Etat religieux des diocèses formant" Patriarcat de Chaldéen de Babylone au 1er janvier 1896 " , Revue de l'Orient Chrétien I, 1896, pp. 450—451
• D. Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organization of the Church of the East, 1318-1913 , Lovanio 2000, pp. 315-317

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