 Despite the death of his chief rival, the patriarch's troubles continued throughout the 1830s.The monks of the monastery of Rabban Hormizd still refused to acknowledge his authority, and were supported by the metropolitan Joseph Audo, who now claimed jurisdiction over the monastery on the grounds that it lay within his diocese of Amadiya.Yohannan Hormizd retaliated by suspending Audo and a number of Rabban Hormizd monks, but this action had little effect.