Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans: Intercommunal Relations on the Periphery of the Ottoman Empire
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Appendix A: The Line of Mar Shimun

The Line of Mar Shimun

During the period under study, the patriarchate of Mar Shimun contained the following structure:

    1. Mar Shimun, the patriarch.
    2. Mar Khnanishu, the metropolitan who conse-crated the patriarch.
    3. The bishopric of Mar Yonan in the district of Urmia, Persian Azerbaijan.
    4. The bishopric of Mar Kebriel, Ur-mia.
    5. The bishopric of Mar Yousif, Ur-mia.
    6. The bishopric of Mar Elia, Urmia.
    7. Metropolitan Mar Eshu.
    8. The bishopric of Mar Dinkha.
    9. Mar Youhanan, bishop of the district of D’rostaka.
    10. Mar Silaiwa, bishop of the district of Gawir.
    11. Mar Sarkees, bishop of the district of Jelu.
    12. Mar Eshuyab, bishop of Ber-war.

The Extent of the Followers of the Mar Shimun Line

The geographical extent of the followers of Mar Shimun could be assessed from the following document, which illustrated the expansion of the church in the Ottoman Empire and Per-sia:1

Urmia: twenty-five thousand families in the city and villages throughout a district eighty miles along the western shore of Lake Urmia. In Urmia, there were sixteen hundred houses. They had five bishops.