1969-1916
Prose writer, literary researcher and translator, was born in Baghdeeda (Qaraqosh), Nineveh. He studied at his hometown school and joined the seminary of Saint Matti monastery in 1929. In 1935 he became a monk. He studied at the cleric school in Zahla where he completed his Arabic and philosophical studies and appointed a teacher of Syriac then became a headmaster there. He issued “The East” magazine in 1946, after that he issued “The language of East” “in 1948. He became bishop of Mosul in 1952. In 1959 he studied in New York for year. From his books: Historical researches / the thickets of basil / the essential relationships between Syriac and Arabic / Ibn Al-Ebry- the poet, Qamishli 1965/The whiff of lavender/ the novel of Theodora and the drama of faith and death. He translated from Syriac into Arabic Alothiolion book by Ibn Al-Ebry , Alqamishli 1967, the history of Tor Abdin by Afram Barsom, Jounieh (Lebanon) 1964 and the wise (Ahiqar), Baghdad 1967.
