Ignatius Pilate was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1591 until his death in 1597.
[4] Whilst at the Mar Behnam Monastery, Pilate wrote a letter in 1579/1580 to Pope Gregory XIII in which he expressed his interest in establishing union with Rome.
[6] He ordained his brother ʿAbd al-Ghani as a deputy metropolitan and then maphrian.
[7] However, from 1591 Pilate was opposed by Hidayat Allah, with the support of his uncle Timothy Tuma (d. 1592), until they were reconciled by John Wanki in 1593.
[10] He also produced a copy of The Book of Rays (Syriac: Kthobo d-Zalge) by Bar Hebraeus, dated 1590 (Oxford MS 521).