Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek

Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek (born Julius Yeshu Çiçek; Turkish: Yulyus Yeşu Çiçek, born 1 January 1942 in Kafro `Elayto, Tur Abdin, Turkey – died 29 October 2005 in Düsseldorf, Germany) was the first Syriac Orthodox Church archbishop for Central Europe.

[1] Julius Yeshu Çiçek was the son of the Syriac Orthodox priest Barsaumo (1908 - 1993) and his wife Bath Qyomo Sayde († 1991).

Later, he entered the monastery of Mor Cyriacus in the region Bsheriye and became involved in the search of surviving Syriac and Armenian Christians after the 1915 genocide.

Yeshu Çiçek was elected abbot and in 1969 he was ordained as Bishop of Tur Abdin by Mor Iwannis Ephrem Bilgic.

Mor Julius participated in ecumenical dialogues with the Catholic Church in the Pro Oriente and accompanied Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas during his historic visit to Rome in 1984, where a Joint Declaration with Pope John Paul II was signed.