Shimun XIX Benyamin

Mar

Benyamin XXI Shimun
Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East
Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin on or before 1913
ChurchChurch of the East
DiocesePatriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
SeeHoly Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed30 March 1903
Term ended3 March 1918
PredecessorMar Shimun XVIII Rouel (1860/1861-1903)
SuccessorMar Shimun XX Paulos (1918–1920)
Orders
RankCatholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born1887
Qodshanis, Hakkari, Ottoman Empire
Died3 March 1918(1918-03-03) (aged 30)
Salmas, Persia
NationalityAssyrian
DenominationChristian, Church of the East
ResidenceQodshanis, Hakkari, Turkey and later Urmia, Persia
OccupationCleric

Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin (1887– 3 March 1918) (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܒܢܝܡܝܢ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܥܣܪܝܢ ܘܩܕܡܝܐ) served as the 117th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East.

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