Mar Addai II (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ ܬܪܝܢܐ; born Shlemun Giwargis Syriac: ܫܠܝܡܘܢ ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ 6 January 1948[citation needed] – 11 February 2022) was Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East.
[1] Mar Addai II was born on 6 January 1948,[citation needed] in Mosul, the capital of the Nineveh governorate in Iraq.
He was officially elected to the position of Catholicos-Patriarch in February 1970, several months after the death of Mar Thoma Darmo.
[2] On Sunday, 24 September 2006, St Mary's Cathedral, the home of Mar Addai II, was bombed.
The bombing was carefully timed to occur just as parishioners exited the church following Sunday morning services.