Flavianus Michael Malke
Blessed Bishop Flavianus Michael Malke | |
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| Eparch of Gazireh | |
Bet. 1913-5. | |
| Diocese | Gazireh |
| See | Gazireh |
| In office | 19 January 1913 - 28 August 1915 |
| Predecessor | Julius Behnam Aqrawi |
| Successor | None; suppressed |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 13 May 1883 by Ignatius George V Shelhot |
| Consecration | 19 January 1913 by Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ya'Qūb Melkī 1858 |
| Died | 29 August 1915 (aged 55–56) Cizre, Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey) |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 29 August |
| Venerated in | |
| Title as Saint | Blessed |
| Beatified | 29 August 2015 Harissa, Lebanon by Cardinal Angelo Amato |
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| Patronage | |
Flavianos Michael Malke (Syriac: ܦܠܒܝܐܢܘܣ ܡܝܟܐܝܠ ܡܠܟܝ, Flavyānus Mikhayil Malké), born Ya'Qūb Melkī; (1858 – 29 August 1915) was an Eastern Catholic prelate of the Brothers of Saint Ephrem of an Syriac background. He became the Syrian Catholic eparch of Gazarta (modern Cizre). Malke was killed in Gazarta during the Assyrian genocide after he refused to convert to Islam.
On 8 August 2015, Pope Francis approved his beatification after he determined that Malke was killed in hatred of the faith. He was beatified on 29 August 2015, the centenary of his martyrdom.