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During this same period – and I mean from 1553, the year of the conclusion of the Union and beyond until 1830 – while the patriarchs bearing the name “Mar Simeon” were following the Catholic succession of Johanan Sulaqa, the family of “Abuna” was following in the monastery of Rabban Hormizd the original series of patriarchs of the See of the East, most of whom bear in this period the name “Mar Elijah”, and their carved monuments are still preserved in the tomb of the patriarchs next to the hermitage of Captain Hormizd, and there are nine monuments, the first of which is the tomb of Shimon IV Basidi (1437-1497) and the last of which is the tomb of Elijah XII (1778-1804), the best witness to the identity of these bodies and their place in the history of the Church of the East (see the texts of the monuments of Korgis Awad, ancient monument (pp. 33-41), until Rome recognized in 1830 Mar Johanan of Hormuz, the last patriarch of the patriarchal family – from whom the series of Chaldean patriarchs of Babylon continued to the present day united with the Roman See.

'''Here are now samples of supporting documents, drawn from correspondence kept in the archives of Lambeth Palace, the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury in London:'''