Abded ascended to the patriarchal throne at the onset of a time of great difficulty for the Syriac Orthodox Church as , in October of the same year , demonstrations held by Armenian and Syriac Christians against the Ottoman governor of Amed led to a massacre at the hands of the Muslim population throughout the province and the deaths of two-thirds of Syriac Christians in the Ottoman Empire
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Massacres of Diyarbakır (1895)
Ignatius Abded Mshiho II