Yohannan Gabriel

Yohannan Gabriel
Bishop of Salmas
Church	Chaldean Catholic Church
Appointed	1795
Orders
Ordination	1795 (Priest)
Consecration	8 Nov 1795 (Bishop) by Yohannan Hormizd
Personal details
Born	1758 Khosrowa
Died	15 July 1833

Ishoʿyahb Ishaʿya Yohannan Gabriel (or Jean Guriel, 1758–1833) was bishop of Salmas of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1795 to his death.

Isho'yahb Gabriel was born in Khosrowa in 1758 and educated at the College of the Propaganda, which he entered in 1773. He was ordained a priest early in 1795, taking the name Yohannan. In the same year he was appointed metropolitan of Salmas and he was consecrated a bishop at Baghdad on 8 November 1795 by Yohannan Hormizd (then metropolitan of Mosul), on the instructions of the Vatican.

His appointment was resisted by a party in the Salmas district, who wanted as their bishop the priest Isaac, a nephew of the late metropolitan Ishoʿyahb Shemʿon. They sent Isaac to the Nestorian patriarch Shemʿon XVI Yohannan, who consecrated him bishop of Salmas at Qudshanis, giving him the name Ishoʿyahb Melchisedec. Eventually, following an approach by Yohannan Hormizd to the Persian authorities, Ishoʿyahb Gabriel was able to assert his authority and administer his diocese without opposition. As metropolitan of Salmas he was recognised as vicar with jurisdiction over the Mar Thoma Christians of Malabar by the Vatican in 1801.

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