In 1667 the Capuchin missionary Jean-Baptiste de St-Aignan established there,[1]: 29 teaching to omit the liturgical commemoration of Nestorius and to use the title Mother of God for Saint Mary.
[1]: 51 The reaction of Alqosh's patriarch Eliya X (XI) Yukhannan Maraugin was very strong: he came personally to Amid, installed a traditionalist bishop named David and had Joseph to be twice imprisoned.
Thus into the Church of the East began a new patriarchal line in full communion with Rome.
Falling ill, in August 1694 Joseph I left Amid for Rome, and formally resigned in 1696.
[4] The life of Mar Yousip I is mainly known by his biography written in the early 18th century by 'Adb Al-Ahad son of Garabet (bishop of Amid, died 1728) and later translated into French in 1898 by J.P.