- The nāṭar
kursyā (or nāṭar kursi,
Syriac ܢܛܪ ܟܘܪܣܝܐ,
meaning "guardian of the throne") was an
officer of the
Church of the East.
Originally charged with...
-
metropolitan and
natar kursya in 1540/41 (MS in the St
Joseph collection in Beirut), as the patriarch's
nephew and
natar kursya in 1543 (MS
Mardin 14)...
- the lake. The site
became known since at
least the
Early Muslim period as
Kursya, the
Aramaic word for "chair", and
later as Kursi, a word with the same...
- and its
bishop was
appointed guardian of the
patriarchal throne (natar
kursya). The earliest-known
bishop of
Kashkar was ʿAbdishoʿ, who was one of several...
- Shemʿon's
brother the
metropolitan Ishoʿyahb Bar Mama, who had been
natar kursya throughout his reign, is
first mentioned as
patriarch in a
colophon of 1539...
- was his
designated successor or
natar kursya ('guardian of the throne'). He is
first mentioned as
natar kursya in a m****cript
colophon of 1504, at the...
-
patriarchy moved from
uncle to nephew. This
system came to be
known as Nāṭar
Kursyā (ܢܛܪ ܟܘܪܣܝܐ "Guardian of the throne"), and by the 19th
century this system...
-
succeeded as
Patriarch by his
brother Shemon VII Ishoyahb, who had been
natar kursya (designated successor)
throughout his reign;
since the
reign of
Shemon IV...
-
consecrated as metropolitan, and
designated as
presumptive successor (natar
kursya) by his
paternal uncle,
patriarch Eliya XI, who died in 1778, and Ishoyahb...
-
appointing metropolitans from his
family and
designating his
successor as
natar kursya (guardian of the throne). A
different picture from that of the do****ent...
