# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shimun-xviii-rubil
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:26:57.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shimun-xviii-rubil"
name: "Shimun XVIII Rubil"
slug: "shimun-xviii-rubil"
description: "Mar Shimun XVIII Rubil served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of what would come to be called the Assyrian Church of the East from 1861 until 1903, succeeding his uncle Shimun XVII Abraham. He led the church from Qodshanis, in southeastern Turkey. In 1869, he received an invitation from the Vatican to attend the First Vatican Council as an observer, but he did not accept the invitation, and he also rejected other initiatives for the union with the Catholic Church."
tagline: "Patriarch of Babylonia"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nestorian_Archbishop_-_Modern_Persia_by_Mooshie_G._Daniel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1844"
deathDate: "1903-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.87
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.005184
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "شمعون الثامن عشر روبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimun_XX."
    title: "Shimun XX."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimun_XVIII_Rubil"
    title: "Shimun XVIII Rubil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_XX"
    title: "Simon XX"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimun_XVIII_Rowil"
    title: "Shimun XVIII Rowil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1660183"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump