Career
He was consecrated in the ancient church of Mart Maryam (Saint Mary) in Urmia by the metropolitan March Eskhaq Khnanisho and the bishops March Eliya Abuna of Alqosh, March Yosip Khnanisho of Shemsdin (the metropolitan"s designated successor), and March Zaya Sargis of Jilu. On 20 August 1918, for fear of persecution from the Turks, Kurds, and Iranians, the newly elected Catholicos-Patriarch fled with about 60,000 of his people from Urmia in Iraq seeking the protection of the British mandate. 15,000 of his followers died on the way.
The survivors were in a camp in Baquba, about 50 kilometers north of Baghdad.
He died on 27 April 1920 and buried on 9 May 1920 in the Armenian cemetery in Baghdad. March Shimun XXII Paulos" successor was March Eshai Shimun XXIII.