# Shemon VI

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{{Infobox Christian leader
|honorific_prefix = Mar
|name = {{Transliteration|ar|DIN|Shemʿon}} VI
|birth_name = 
|church = [Church of the East](/source/Church_of_the_East)
|see = [Seleucia-Ctesiphon](/source/Patriarchal_Province_of_Seleucia-Ctesiphon)
|title = [Patriarch of the Church of the East](/source/List_of_Patriarchs_of_the_Church_of_the_East)
|residence = Rabban Hormizd Monastery
|enthroned = 1504
|ended = 5 August 1538
|predecessor = [Eliya V](/source/Eliya_V)
|successor = [Shemon VII Ishoyahb](/source/Shemon_VII_Ishoyahb)
|birth_date = 15th century
|death_date = 5 August 1538
|buried = [Rabban Hormizd Monastery](/source/Rabban_Hormizd_Monastery)
}}

'''[Mar](/source/Mar_(title)) {{Transliteration|ar|DIN|Shemʿon}} VI''' (also written '''Shimun VI''') was [Patriarch of the Church of the East](/source/Patriarch_of_the_Church_of_the_East) from 1504 until his death on 5 August 1538.{{sfn|Murre van den Berg|1999|p=242}}{{sfn|Baum|Winkler|2003|p=196}} Shemon is credited with revising the [East Syriac Rite](/source/East_Syriac_Rite), replacing commemorations of traditional saints and martyrs with new ones, especially for those who had founded monasteries.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2000|p=20}} Following his death, he was succeeded as Patriarch by his brother [Shemon VII Ishoyahb](/source/Shemon_VII_Ishoyahb), who had been ''[natar kursya](/source/natar_kursya)'' (designated successor) throughout his reign; since the reign of [Shemon IV](/source/Shemon_IV) the role of Patriarch had been passed hereditarily.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2000|pp=193–194}} Shemon VI was buried alongside other Patriarchs of his era at [Rabban Hormizd Monastery](/source/Rabban_Hormizd_Monastery) near [Mosul](/source/Mosul), his residence while he had been Patriarch; his epitaph, recorded by Vosté, was inscribed by a priest named Israel.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2000|p=400}}

==Notes==
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==Bibliography==
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* {{Cite book|last1=Baum|first1=Wilhelm|author-link1=Wilhelm Baum (historian)|last2=Winkler|first2=Dietmar W.|author2-link=Dietmar W. Winkler|title=The Church of the East: A Concise History|year=2003|location=London-New York|publisher=Routledge-Curzon|isbn=978-1-134-43019-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CnSCAgAAQBAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Burleson|first1=Samuel|last2=Van Rompay|first2=Lucas|chapter=List of Patriarchs of the Main Syriac Churches in the Middle East|title=Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage|year=2011|location=Piscataway, NJ|publisher=Gorgias Press|pages=481–491|chapter-url=https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/List-of-Patriarchs-Churches-Middle-East}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Murre van den Berg|first=Heleen H. L.|author-link = Heleen Murre-van den Berg|title=The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries|journal=Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies|year=1999|volume=2|issue=2|pages=235–264|doi=10.31826/hug-2010-020119|s2cid=212688640|url=https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/journals/hug/2/1/article-p235.pdf}}
* {{Cite book|last=Wilmshurst|first=David|title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913|year=2000|location=Louvain|publisher=Peeters Publishers|isbn=978-90-429-0876-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jB8ir0ek8bgC}}
* {{Cite book|last=Wilmshurst|first=David|title=The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East|year=2011|location=London|publisher=East & West Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-907318-04-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfxNtwAACAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Wilmshurst|first=David|chapter=The patriarchs of the Church of the East|title=The Syriac World|year=2019|location=London|publisher=Routledge|pages=799–805|isbn=978-1-138-89901-8|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E48JswEACAAJ}}
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{{s-rel|[Church of the East titles](/source/Church_of_the_East)}}
{{Succession box
  |before=[Eliya V](/source/Eliya_V)<br />(1502&ndash;1504)
  |title=[Catholicos-Patriarch of the East](/source/List_of_Patriarchs_of_the_Church_of_the_East)
  |years=(1504&ndash;1538)
  |after=[Shemon VII Ishoyahb](/source/Shemon_VII_Ishoyahb)<br />(1538&ndash;1558)
}}
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