Philippe-Jacques Abraham

Philippe-Jacques Abraham (Syriac: ܐܒܪܗܡ ܦܝܠܝܦܘܣ ܝܥܩܘܒ) (Orahim Pillipus Yaqub) (3 January 1848 – 28 August 1915) was an ethnic Assyrian bishop and martyr of the Chaldean Catholic Church.^[1]

Philippe-Jacques Abraham
Bishop of the Diocese of Gazireh
See	Diocese of Gazireh
In office	10 February 1882—August 28, 1915
Predecessor	Joseph VI Audo
Successor	Suppressed
Orders
Ordination	1873
Consecration	10 Feb 1882 by Joseph VI Audo
Personal details
Born	(1848-01-03)January 3, 1848 Telkef
Died	28 August 1915(1915-08-28) (aged 67) Cizre

He was born in Telkef in 1848. He joined the Rabban Hormizd Monastery at a young age where he pursued his clerical studies and was consecrated as a bishop for the Syro-Malabar Church in British India by Patriarch Yawsep VI on 25 July 1875. Seven years later he was consecrated as a bishop for the Chaldeans of the Jazira region.^[2]

During the Assyrian genocide he tried to ask for protection from the local Kurdish Agha to spare the city's Christians. His efforts were ultimately futile and he was arrested by the Ottoman authorities on 21 August 1915. The authorities had him executed a week later alongside the Syriac Catholic bishop Flavianus Michael Malke^[3] and his body was dragged in the town's streets.^[4]

See also

• Addai Scher