name Ignatius. Isaac served as patriarch until ill health led him to resign, and, as a result, a synod was convened at the monastery of Saint Ananias on 20 July 1723, at which Dionysius Shukrallah, archbishop of Aleppo, was elected as patriarch with Isaac's approval. Isaac returned to Mosul, where he died on 11 or 18 July 1724, and was buried in his father's mausoleum at the Church of Saint Thomas. As maphrian and patriarch, Isaac ordained seventeen bishops. Works At the time of the reconstruction of the church of Saint Jacob at Amida in 1691, Isaac issued a decree on behalf of the Shamsis, a small former sun-worshipping sect that had joined the Syriac Orthodox Church yet faced suspicion, to attest to their adherence to the Church. The decree was a copy of a document written by the monk David of Homs in c. 1460; it was later found by Patriarch Ignatius George V in 1825 and copied again in Garshuni. He also composed a short grammar book in Syriac in 15 chapters on etymology and morphology whilst maphrian, before 1699. Episcopal succession As maphrian and patriarch, Isaac ordained the following bishops: Dioscorus Shukr Allah, archbishop of Gazarta (1687) Timothy Shukr Allah, archbishop of Amida (1690) Severus Malke, archbishop of the monastery of Saint Matthew (1694) Athanasius Murad, archbishop of Gazarta (1695) Timothy ‘Ata Allah, bishop of Edessa (1699) Dionysius Shukr Allah, archbishop of Aleppo (1709) Basil Lazarus III, Maphrian of the East (1709) Basil Simon II, Maphrian of Tur Abdin (1710) John of Mardin, archbishop of the monastery of Saint Abhai, Gargar, and Ḥisn Manṣūr (1712) Basil Matthew II, Maphrian of the East (1713) Gregorius Job, archbishop of the monastery of Saint Abhai (1714) Timothy ’Isa, archbishop of monastery of Saint Ananias and Mardin (1718) Severus Elias, archbishop of Edessa (1718) Dioscorus Aho, archbishop of Gazarta (1718) Gregorius ‘Abd al-Ahad, archbishop of Jerusalem (1719) Iyawannis Karas, archbishop of the monastery of Saint Behnam (1722) Basil George, archbishop (1722) References Notes Citations Bibliography People from Mosul Syriac Patriarchs of Antioch from 512 to 1783 1647 births 1724 deaths Assyrians from the Ottoman Empire 18th-century Oriental Orthodox archbishops 17th-century Oriental Orthodox archbishops Maphrians Prisoners and detainees of the Ottoman Empire Syriac writers Oriental Orthodox bishops in the Ottoman Empire 18th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire 17th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire