{{Short description|101st Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1591–1597)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox Patriarch | name= Ignatius Pilate | image= | patriarch_of=Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East | church=Syriac Orthodox Church | see=Antioch | enthroned =1591 | ended=1597 | predecessor =Ignatius David II Shah | successor=Ignatius Hidayat Allah | birth_name= | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date=1597 | death_place=Aleppo, Ottoman Empire | residence = | alma_mater = | other = | footnotes = }} '''Ignatius Pilate''' was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1591 until his death in 1597.{{sfnmp|Barsoum|2003|1p=21|2a1=Burleson|2a2=Rompay|2y=2011|2p=489|Wilmshurst|2019|3p=809}}{{efn|Also known as Ignatius Pilatus or Pilate al-Manṣuri.{{sfnmp|1a1=Burleson|1a2=Rompay|1y=2011|1p=489|Barsoum|2003|2p=514}}}}

==Biography== Pilate was from the village of al-Manṣūriyyah near Mardin and was educated at the Mor Hananyo Monastery.{{sfnmp|Bcheiry|2004|1p=219|Barsoum|2008|2p=53}} He was appointed as Maphrian of the East in 1575 or 1576 and assumed the name Basil.{{sfnmp|Snelders|2011|1p=66|Wilmshurst|2019|2p=811}} Whilst at the Mar Behnam Monastery, Pilate wrote a letter in 1579/1580 to Pope Gregory XIII in which he expressed his interest in establishing union with Rome.{{sfnp|Snelders|2011|p=66}} In 1591, Pilate became patriarch of Antioch and assumed the name Ignatius.{{sfnmp|1a1=Burleson|1a2=Rompay|1y=2011|1p=489|Wilmshurst|2019|2p=809}} He ordained his brother ʿAbd al-Ghani as a deputy metropolitan and then maphrian.{{sfnp|Barsoum|2008|p=40}} However, from 1591 Pilate was opposed by Hidayat Allah, with the support of his uncle Timothy Tuma ({{died-in|1592}}), until they were reconciled by John Wanki in 1593.{{sfnmp|Barsoum|2003|1pp=156, 514|Barsoum|2008|2p=40}} He died in 1597 at Aleppo, where he was buried.{{sfnmp|Bcheiry|2004|1p=219|Takahashi|2011|2p=15}}

==Works== In 1560, Pilate transcribed a ''Beth Gazo'' whilst he was still a monk.{{sfnp|Barsoum|2003|p=74}} He also produced a copy of ''The Book of Rays'' ({{langx|syr|Kthobo d-Zalge}}) by Bar Hebraeus, dated 1590 (Oxford MS 521).{{sfnp|Barsoum|2003|p=467}}

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{{s-start}} {{succession box| before=Basil ʿAbd al-Ghani I| title=Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East| years=1575/1576–1591| after=Basil ʿAbd al-Ghani II}} {{succession box| before=Ignatius David II Shah| title=Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch| years=1591–1597| after=Ignatius Hidayat Allah}} {{s-end}} {{Maphrians and Metropolitans of the East}} {{Patriarchs of the Syriac Orthodox Church}}

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