Yohanna Ibrahim

He was kidnapped on April 22, 2013, along with Paul (Yazigi), the Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Aleppo.

The title of his dissertation was “Christian Arabs in Mesopotamia before Islam.” Before he became a bishop in Syria, Ibrahim had positions in Iraq, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, and Lebanon.

[3][4] Ibrahim disappeared in 2013 while traveling with Boulos Yazigi to negotiate the release of two kidnapped priests.

[5] In March 2019, a Lebanese newspaper reported that Syrian democrats were negotiating for his release from ISIS.

[6] The Assad regime has also been accused of being behind the kidnapping since the bishop was a vocal opponent of Bashar al-Assad.

Archbishop Gregorios Yohanna (left), of the Syrian Orthodox church of Aleppo, with Austrian politician Reinhold Lopathka (right) in 2012.
Banner in support of the kidnapped bishops in front of the Monastery of Saint Mark, Jerusalem , in 2013.