{{Infobox Christian leader | honorific_prefix = Mar | name = Eliya VII | birth_name = | church = Church of the East | see = | title = Patriarch of the Church of the East | residence = Rabban Hormizd Monastery | enthroned = 1591 | ended = 1617 | predecessor = Eliya VI | successor = Eliya VIII | birth_date = | death_date = 26 May 1617 }} [[File:Rabban Hormizd monastery founded on VII century - panoramio.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The ancient Rabban Hormizd Monastery, former residence of the Patriarchs of the Church of the East]]

'''Eliya VII''' ({{langx|syr|ܐܠܝܐ}} / ''Elīyā'', d. 26 May 1617) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1591 to 1617, with residence in Rabban Hormizd Monastery, near Alqosh, in modern Iraq. On several occasions, in 1605–1607 and 1610, and again in 1615–1616, he negotiated on with representatives of the Catholic Church, but without any final conclusion.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2000|p=24, 262, 355}}{{sfn|Baum|Winkler|2003|p=116-118}} In older historiography, he was designated as Eliya VII,{{sfn|Malech|Malech|1910|p=315, 321}} but later renumbered as Eliya "VIII" by some authors.{{sfn|Tisserant|1931|p=261-263}}{{sfn|Fiey|1993|p=37}} After the resolution of several chronological questions, he was designated again as Eliya VII,{{sfn|Lampart|1966|p=64-67}}{{sfn|Macomber|1969|p=263-273}}{{sfn|Murre van den Berg|1999|p=244-245}} and that numeration is accepted in recent scholarly works.{{sfn|Baum|Winkler|2000|p=106, 152}}{{sfn|Baum|Winkler|2003|p=174}}{{sfn|Baum|2004|p=232-233}}{{sfn|Baumer|2005|p=249, 312}}{{sfn|Murre van den Berg|2006|p=528}}{{sfn|Hage|2007|p=473}}{{sfn|Jakob|2014|p=99}}

==See also== * Patriarch of the Church of the East * List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East * Assyrian Church of the East

==Notes== {{Reflist|2}}

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