Mar Awa III is an Assyrian-American prelate currently serving as Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, headquartered in Erbil. He previously served as the secretary of the Holy Syno
Mar Awa III in 2025
The Assyrian Church of the East, sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, is an East Syriac Christian church that follow
Awa III
…Mar Awa III (born David Royel; 4 July 1975) is an Assyrian-American prelate currently serving as Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, headquartered in Erbil. He previously served as the secretary of the Holy Synod, is one of five trustees of the Assyrian Church of the East Relief…
The Patriarchal See of the Assyrian Church of the East in Kurdistan Region, Iraq
A 6th-century Assyrian church, St. John the Arab, in the Assyrian village of Geramon
Mar Toma church near Urmia, Iran
Mar Elias (Eliya), the Nestorian bishop of the Urmia Plain village of Geogtapa, c. 1831. The image comes from A Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorians, with Notes of the Mohammedans by Justin Perkins (Andover, 1843).