The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913

David Wilmshurst

Peeters Publishers, 2000 - Church of the East - 855 pages

This careful and scholarly study assembles and discusses the available evidence for the ecllesiastical organisation of the Church of the East (the so-called 'Nestorian' church) in the Middle East between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. The author has built on the work of the late J.M. Fiey, but has covered a wider geographical area and used a much wider range of sources. Besides drawing on the memoirs of European and American missionaries and other literary sources, the author has consulted a large number of manuscript catalogues, many of which are only accessible in Arabic sources, and has analysed the evidence of more than 2.500 East Syrian manuscript colophons to establish the dioceses of the Church of the East at different periods, to identify its ecclesiastical elites (patriarchs, bishops, priests, deacons and scribes), and to analyse the rivalry between the church's traditionalist and Catholic wings after the schism of 1552. The study contains a number of detailed maps, which localise hundreds of East Syrian villages in Kurdistan, and will be an indispensable reference tool for scholars of the Church of the East.

Contents

• East Syrian Communities in the Diocese of Zākhō 1913: 109
• THE AMĀDĪYA BERWĀRĪ AQRA ERBIL AND KIRKŪK REGIONS: 125
• East Syrian Communities in the Diocese of Amādīyā 1850: 131
• b Topographical Survey: 132
• East Syrian Communities in the Diocese of Berwārī 1850: 150
• East Syrian Communities in the Diocese of Aqrā 1850: 154
• v The Erbil Region: 167
• NinthCentury East Syrian Communities in the Margā District Table 14 East Syrian Communities in the Archdiocese of Kirkuk 1913: 176
• THE MOSUL REGION: 188
• East Syrian Communities in the Diocese of Mosul 1850: 199
• Religious Communities in Mosul 18071890: 206
• The Christian Population of Mosul 18071910: 207
• THE HAKKĀRĪ AND URMI REGIONS: 275
• b Topographical Survey: 284
• Population of the Hakkārī Sanjak 1900: 285
• East Syrian Communities in the Lower Tiyārī District 1850: 288
• East Syrian Communities in the Upper Tiyārī and Walto Districts 1850 and 1877: 291
• East Syrian Communities in the Lewūn and Nōrdūz Districts 1850 and 1877: 293
• East Syrian Communities in the Dez Shwāwūtā and Bilijnaye Districts 1850 and 1877: 294
• East Syrian Communities in the Qūdshānīs and Sīwīne Districts 1850 and 1877: 295
• East Syrian Communities in the Tḥūmā District 1850 and 1877: 297
• East Syrian Communities in the Chal Raikan and Tāl Districts 1850 and 1877: 299
• East Syrian Communities in the Gāwār District 1850 and 1877: 302
• East Syrian Communities in the Albaq Derrenaye Ḥānānīs and Artushi Districts 1850 and 1877: 303
• East Syrian Communities in the Shemsdīn District 1877: 305
• East Syrian Communities in the Baradost Tergāwār and Mergäwär Districts 1877: 307
• iii The Urmi Region: 311
• East Syrian Communities in the Archdiocese of Ūrmi 1913: 321
• b Topographical Survey: 322
• East Syrian Communities in the Diocese of Salmas 1913: 326
• East Syrian Communities in the Anzel District 1862: 329
• East Syrian Communities in the Anzel District 1877: 331
• East Syrian Communities in the Baranduz District 1862: 334
• East Syrian Communities in the Baranduz District 1877: 336
• Appendix One 371377: 371
• A LIST OF EAST SYRIAN MANUSCRIPT COLOPHONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 378
• Appendix Three 733738: 733
• Appendix Four 739746: 739
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 747
• INDEX OF PLACES: 758
• INDEX OF PROPER NAMES: 796
• vii The Gazartā Region: 849
• LIST OF TABLES: 855

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913; Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Subsidia], ISSN 0070-0444; Volume 5; Volume 104 of “The” Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318 - 1913, David Wilmshurst
• Author: David Wilmshurst
• Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 2000
• ISBN: 9042908769, 9789042908765
• Length: 855 pages