Eliya VI

Eliya VI (Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ / Elīyā, d. 26 May 1591) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1558 to 1591, with residence in Rabban Hormizd Monastery, near Alqosh, in modern Iraq.

[4][5] After the resolution of several chronological questions, he was designated again as Eliya VI,[6][7][8] and that numeration is accepted in recent scholarly works.

Several years later, probably because Hnanishoʿ had died in the interim, patriarch Shemon VII transferred the succession to his other nephew, fifteen-year-old Eliya.

Thus he became natar kursya (designated successor) of the Patriarchal Throne.

During his patriarchal tenure, from 1558 to 1591, Church of the East preserved its traditional christology and ecclesiastical independence.