Mar Mari Emmanuel

Mari Emmanuel (born 19 July 1970) is an Iraqi-born Assyrian Australian Metropolitan bishop of the Ancient Assyrian Church of the East who presides over the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand.[1]

Mar Mari Emmanuel

H.G.
Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand
ChurchAncient Assyrian Church of the East
MetropolisAustralia and New Zealand
Orders
Ordination11 August 2011 (as Metropolitan)
by Mar Yacoub Daniel and Mar Zaia Khoshaba
RankMetropolitan
Personal details
Born
Robert Shlimon

(1970-07-19) July 19, 1970
Haditha, Iraq
NationalityAssyrian
DenominationSyriac Christianity
ResidenceSydney, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationCleric

Early life

Mar Mari Emmanuel was born Robert Shlimon at T1 station in Haditha, Iraq and he settled in Australia in the early 1980s. He worked as a bank manager in the 1990s, before becoming a deacon and then later a reverend in the 2000s.[2]

Tenure

In August 2011, Mar Yacoub Daniel and Mar Zaia Khoshaba consecrated Mar Mari Emmanuel as a suffragan bishop for the archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand, assisting the Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand. Previously known as reverend Emmanuel Shlimon, he adopted the episcopal name of 'Mari Emmanuel' (after Saint Mari) at the time of becoming a bishop. In July 2013, while on a visit to Australia, Mar Addai II bestowed the patriarchal confirmation upon Mari Emmanuel.[3]

In August 2014, he was suspended by the Patriarch, Addai II. However, since there was no evidence for accusations he had since returned to the church and remained as metropolitan bishop. In January 2015, Mari Emmanuel established an independent church in Wakeley which is currently known as Christ The Good Shepherd Church. In 2016, Mari Emmanuel was received into communion with metropolitan, Toma Gewargis, who paid a visit to the church later that year.

Since 2017, Mari Emmanuel annually visits the United States and Canada where he conducts preaching ministries in several states such as Illinois, Arizona, California and Ontario. He has also paid several visits to the separatist and anti-patriarchal parish in Modesto, California, and the congregation acknowledge him as a spiritual prelate alongside the two metropolitans and recite his name in their litanies. Mari Emmanuel's 'Christ The Good Shepherd Church' also celebrates Christmas according to the Gregorian calendar date in line with the patriarchal decree of June 2010, making it a new calendarist church rather than an old one.[4]


References
  1. Fairfield City Woman of the Year Rasha Daniel by Ninos Emmanuel from SBS. 13 April, 2021
  2. Wilmshurst, David (2019). "The patriarchs of the Church of the East". The Syriac World. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138899018.
  3. Hunter, Erica C. D. (2014). "The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East". Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. London-New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317818663.
  4. Christ The Good Shepherd Church Inc., Wakeley , New South Wales by Orthodox World.org
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