Shimun XVIII Rubil

Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil (also known as Simon XVIII Rouel or Rowil) served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of what would come to be called the Assyrian Church of the East from 1861 until 1903, succeeding his uncle Shimun XVII Abraham. He led the church from Qodshanis, in southeastern Turkey. In 1869, he received an invitation from the Vatican to attend the First Vatican Council as an observer, but he did not accept the invitation, and he also rejected other initiatives for the union with the Catholic Church.

Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil
Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East
Shimun XVIII Rubil in 1897
Church	Church of the East
Diocese	Patriarchal Diocese of Qodshanis
See	Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	1861
Term ended	1903
Predecessor	Mar Shimun XVII Abraham
Successor	Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin
Orders
Rank	Catholicos-Patriarch
Personal details
Born	1844 (1844) Qodshanis, Hakkari
Died	23 March 1903(1903-03-23) (aged 58–59) Qodshanis, Hakkari
Denomination	Christian, Assyrian Church of the East
Residence	Qodshanis, Hakkari

The Catholicos-Patriarch died on March 16, 1903, and was succeeded by Shimun XIX Benyamin.

Sources

• Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. London-New York: Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 9781134430192.
• Baumer, Christoph (2006). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. London-New York: Tauris. ISBN 9781845111151.
• Coakley, James F. (1992). The Church of the East and the Church of England: A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198267447.
• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Louvain: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042908765.
• Wilmshurst, David (2011). The martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East. London: East & West Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781907318047.

External links

• Official site of the Assyrian Church of the East