Background
He was born in Telkef in 1848.
He was born in Telkef in 1848.
He joined the Rabban Hormizd Monastery at a young age where he pursued his clerical studies and was ordained as a bishop of the Syrian Malabr Church in India on 25 July 1875. Seven years later he was consecrated as a bishop for the Chaldeans of the Jazira region by Joseph VI Audo. His efforts were ultimately futile and he was arrested by the Ottoman authorities on 21 August 1915.
The authorities had him executed a week later alongside the Syriac Catholic bishop Flavianus Michael Malke and his body was dragged in the town"s streets.