Joseph II (Chaldean Patriarch)
Mar Joseph II Sliba Marouf | |
|---|---|
| Patriarch of the Chaldeans | |
| Church | Chaldean Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Amid |
| See | Amid of the Chaldeans |
| Installed | 18 June 1696 |
| Term ended | 1713 |
| Predecessor | Joseph I |
| Successor | Joseph III Timothy Maroge |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sliba Marouf 1667 |
| Died | 1713 (aged 45–46) |
| Residence | Amid,Turkey |
MarJoseph II Sliba Marouf(orYoussef II Sliba Bet Macruf) was the second incumbent of theJosephiteline ofChurch of the East,a little patriarchate infull communionwith thepopeactive in the areas ofAmidandMardinin the 17th–19th century. He was the patriarch of theChaldean Catholic Churchfrom 1696 to 1713.
Life
[edit]Sliba Marouf was born in 1667[1]inTel Keppe,Ottoman Empire,received first orders at fourteen,[2]and was consecrated bishop, without the previous consent ofRome,at the age of 24 in 1691 byJoseph I.[3]: 209 He was chosen by Joseph I as his successor in 1694, but this appointment became effective only when Rome accepted his predecessor's resignation in 1696. Thus Sliba Marouf was confirmed patriarch byHoly Seeon June 18, 1696,[3]: 209 with the name of Joseph II.
As happened for Joseph I, his ministry had to face the strong opposition of the traditionalists.[4]: 26 This forced him in 1708 to ask permission from Rome to resign and move toItaly,a request that was not granted.
During the plague that spread from 1708 he distinguished himself through the help and pastoral care he offered to the sick[4]: 58 until he too was infected. Early in 1713 he chose a successorTimothy Marogeand died of plague a few months later in 1713[3]: 209 [4]: 52 (or according to other sources in 1712) at the age of 46.
Works
[edit]Joseph is remembered as aSyriacandArabicwriter and for having translated many texts fromLatin.HisSpeculum tersum(Book of the pure Mirror) was translated from Syriac into Latin by I. A. Assemani and is conserved in theVatican Library.[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^"Patriarchal See of Babylon".gcatholic.org.Retrieved2009-02-01.
- ^Heleen H.L. Murre."The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries".Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. Archived fromthe originalon 2008-12-22.Retrieved2009-01-24.
- ^abcFrazee, Charles A. (2006).Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923.Cambridge University Press.ISBN978-0-521-02700-7.
- ^abcDavid, Wilmshurst (2000).The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913.Peeters Publishers.ISBN978-90-429-0876-5.
- ^Vatican Library,segn. Borg.lat.177
Sources
[edit]- Frazee, Charles A. (2006) [1983].Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN9780521027007.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000).The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913.Louvain: Peeters Publishers.ISBN9789042908765.
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- Chaldean Catholic Patriarchs of Babylon
- 1667 births
- 1713 deaths
- 17th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops
- 18th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops
- 17th-century clergy from the Ottoman Empire
- 18th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
- Bishops in the Ottoman Empire
- 17th-century Arabic-language writers
- Syriac writers
- 18th-century Arabic-language writers
- Assyrians from the Ottoman Empire