Mar dinkha iv biography
Mar dinkha iv biography
His holiness mar dinkha iv...
Dinkha IV
20th- and 21st-century Patriarch of the Church of the East
Mar Dinkha IV | |
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Dinkha IV presiding at the Assyrian Eucharist (or Raza) in a church near Chicago in June 2008. | |
| Church | Assyrian Church of the East |
| Diocese | Patriarchal Diocese of the Eastern United States |
| See | Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (in exile in Chicago) |
| Installed | 17 October 1976 |
| Term ended | 26 March 2015 |
| Predecessor | Mar Shimun XXI Eshai |
| Successor | Mar Gewargis III |
| Other post(s) | Deaconate at Mar Yokhanan Church, Harir (1950), Bishopric at Urmia (11 February 1962) |
| Ordination | 15 August 1957 |
| Consecration | 11 February 1962 by Shimun XXI Eshai |
| Rank | Bishop |
| Born | Dinkha Khananya (Khanania) 15 September 1935 Darbandokeh, Iraq |
| Died | 26 March 2015(2015-03-26) (aged 79) Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Buried | Montrose Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | Assyrian |
| Denomination | Assyrian Church of the East
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