Mar Yohannan Sulaqa.
A monk of Rabban Hormizd elected patriarch in 1552 by bishops who would not accept another hereditary succession, he walked to Rome, made his profession of faith and was consecrated by Julius III in 1553. He returned to Diyarbakir, was denounced to the Ottoman governor by the rival patriarch, imprisoned, and killed in January 1555. The church counts him a martyr and dates itself from him.
The Church of the East had by the sixteenth century made the patriarchate hereditary within a single family, passing from uncle to nephew, and in 1552 a party of bishops rejected the latest such succession and elected Sulaqa. Rome received him as patriarch of the Chaldeans. His killing in 1555 did not end the line, which continued through a series of patriarchs of varying degrees of communion with Rome; the union was regularised and consolidated in 1830 when Pius VIII confirmed Yohannan Hormizd as Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans. The see moved from Diyarbakir to Mosul and, in 1950, to Baghdad. The cause for Sulaqa's beatification has been raised repeatedly and has not concluded.
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