Augustine Hindi
| Joseph V Augustine Hindi | |
|---|---|
| Patriarch of the Chaldeans | |
| Church | Chaldean Catholic Church |
| See | Amid of the Chaldeans |
| Term ended | 3 April 1827 |
| Predecessor | Joseph IV Lazar Hindi |
| Successor | Yohannan VIII Hormizd |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | Sept 8, 1804 (Bishop) by Yohannan Gabriel |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Augustine Hindi |
| Died | 3 April 1827 |
| Residence | Iraq |
Mar Joseph V Augustine Hindi † was the patriarchal administrator of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1781 to 1827, since 1804 he considered himself Patriarch with the name of Joseph V and from 1812 to his death he actually governed both the patriarchal sees of Alqosh and Amid of the Church of the East.
The See of Amid of the Church of the East was since 1681 in Full Communion with the Holy See and formed a little patriarchate including a few towns on the North-West mountains of Assyria, like Amid itself and Mardin, now in Turkey. The patriarchs that rules over it are usually known as Josephine line, because all of them took the name of Joseph. Augustine Hindi was a nephew of Joseph IV Lazar Hindi, the patriarch since 1759.
In the 18th century this patriarchate suffered a great financial crisis due to over taxation from Turkish authorities, and the patriarch had to travel all over Europe trying to raise funds. Returned in Amid without success, after a few years Lazare Hindi resigned in August 1780 appointing his nephew Augustine Hindi as patriarchal administrator, without consecrating him bishop.
Rome did not recognized nor the appointment of Augustine, but only the resignation of Lazare Hindi, that were soon withdrawn. Lazare Hindi was imprisoned by Turkish authorities in 1789 and escaped to Rome in 1791 where he died in 1796. The hope of the Vatican was to enter in Communion with the larger patriarchate of the Church of the East, the one with see in Alqosh, in such a time divided between the two cousins Eliya Isho'yahb and Yohannan Hormizd, the second of these who considered himself a Catholic.
Thus in 1791 the Vatican appointed Yohannan Hormizd, already metropolitan of Mosul and claiming the patriarchate, also as patriarchal administrator of Amid. The vehement complains of Lazare Hindi then in Rome forced Rome to reach an agreement: in 1793 Yohannan Hormizd withdrew from the see of Amid but Augustine Hindi could not be appointed Patriarch of the Chaldean Church.
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