[1] He gained knowledge in Syriac and religious studies and in 1729 he travelled to Mor Hananyo where he was ordained a monk and then a priest.
In January 1737, Ignatius Shukrallah II ordained him as Metropolitan of Hattack near Diyarbakir, calling him Cyril George.
[2] As was still the superior of Mor Hananyo, he gave the administration of the Maphrianate to his cousin Bishop Cyril Rizk Allah from Mosul.
[2] This movement was led by Michael Jarwa, who was the Syriac Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Aleppo and who was ordained by patriarch Ignatius George III in 1766.
[2] During Ignatius George IV time as a Patriarch and a Maphrian, he had the duty to ordain and consecrate many Metropolitans in the Syria Orthodox church in addition to tens of priests, monks, and deacons [3] Ignatius George IV died in 1781 in Mor Hananyo and was buried at Beth Qadish in the same monastery.