Shimun XIII Dinkha

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Shimun XIII Dinkha
Patriarch of the Chaldeans
Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
Church Chaldean Catholic Church (1662–1692)
Assyrian Church of the East (until c. 1700)
See Patriarchial See of Babylon of the Chaldeans (until 1692)
Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (until 1700)
Installed 1662
Term ended 1692 (in the Chaldean Catholic Church)
1700 (in the Assyrian Church of the East)
Predecessor Shimun XII Yoalaha (Chaldean Catholic Church)
Eliya IX (Church of the East)
Successor Joseph I (Chaldean Catholic Church)
Shemʿon XIV Shlemon (Assyrian Church of the East)
Personal details
Died c. 1700
Residence Salmas
Later in Mosul

Mar Shimun XIII Dinkha was Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church carrying the title Patriarch of Babylon between 1662 and 1692 in communion with Rome and residing in Salmas. He was the last in the hereditary Shimun line of Patriarchs in the Chaldean Catholic Church and, as his predecessors Shimun X Eliyah (1600–1638), Shimun XI Eshuyow (1638–1656) and Shimun XII Yoalaha (1656–1662), not recognized by Rome since the Catholic church does not approve of hereditary line of Patriarchs.

In 1692, Patriarch Shimun XIII moved the seat of his patriarchate to Qochanis (modern-day Konak, Hakkari), broke communion with Rome and became Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, continuing the Shimun hereditary line of Patriarchs in the Assyrian church instead, a tradition that continued until the death of Patriarch Shimun XXIII Eshai in 1975.

Patriarch Shimun Dinkha died around 1700 AD and was succeeded in the Assyrian Church of the East by Shemʿon XIV Shlemon.

Preceded by
Shimun XII Yoalaha
Patriarch of Babylon
1662–1692
Succeeded by
Joseph I
Preceded by
Eliya IX
1617–1660
Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East
1681–c. 1700
Succeeded by
Shemʿon XIV Shlemon
c. 1700–c. 1740



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