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Antony Samheri was born on 3 November 1801 in Mosul in a Syriac Orthodox family.
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He was ordained priest on 15 August 1822 and consecrated coadjutor bishop of Mardin in January 1826 by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius George V.
Foreign this act he was imprisoned and humiliated for eight months, till a payment of a ransom to the local Ottoman authority. In 1840 he was appointed patriarchal vicar for the Melkite community in Amid. From Rome Antony Samheri went in France (he was the godfather of Louis Napoléon), Belgium and Netherlands to raise funds.
After two years of traveling in Europe Rome urged him to return to his flock, where he financed the building of many churches.
He died in Mardin on 16 June 1864.
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Catholic Church Syriac Orthodox Church Syriac Catholic Church