Assyrian Church of the East Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Hierarchy=== [[File:Qudshanis-Hakkari Mar Shimon house.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Residence of the Patriarch in [[Qudshanis]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (1692–1918).]] The patriarchal seat was moved several times throughout history. Up to the 1804, patriarchs of the senior Eliya line resided in the ancient [[Rabban Hormizd Monastery]], while patriarchs of the junior Shimun line resided in the Cathedral Church of Mar Shallita, in the village of [[Qudshanis]] in the [[Hakkari (historical region)|Hakkari Mountains]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], and continued to do so up to the [[World War I|First World War]]. After the beginning of conflict in 1915, the patriarchs temporarily resided between [[Urmia]] and [[Salmas]], and after 1918 the patriarchs resided in [[Mosul]]. After the [[Simele massacre]] of 1933, the then Patriarch [[Shimun XXI Eshai]] was exiled to [[Cyprus]] due to his agitation for [[Assyrian independence movement|independence]]. In 1940, he was welcomed to the [[United States]] where he set up his residence in [[Chicago]], and administered the United States and [[Canada]] as his patriarchal province. The patriarchate was then moved to [[Modesto, California]] in 1954, and finally to [[San Francisco]] in 1958 due to health issues. After the assassination of the patriarch and the election of [[Dinkha IV]] in 1976, the patriarchate was temporarily located in [[Tehran]], where the new patriarch was living at the time. After the [[Iran–Iraq War]] and the [[Iranian Revolution]], the patriarchate again returned to [[Chicago]], where it remained until 2015, when it reestablished itself in the [[Middle East]] by organizing in [[Erbil]]'s [[Ankawa]] district in [[Iraq]] after [[Gewargis III]] was consecrated as Catholicos-Patriarch. The Diocese of Eastern United States served as the patriarch's province from 1994 until 2012. Due to the unstable political, religious and economic situation in the church's historical homeland of the Middle East, many of the church members now reside in [[Western world|Western countries]]. Churches and dioceses have been established throughout [[Europe]], [[United States|America]], and [[Oceania]].{{sfn|Hunter|2014|p=614-615}} The largest expatriate concentration of church members is in the United States, mainly situated in [[Illinois]] and [[California]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page