# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yohannan-viii-hormizd
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:34:05.269Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yohannan-viii-hormizd"
name: "Yohannan VIII Hormizd"
slug: "yohannan-viii-hormizd"
description: "Yohannan VIII Hormizd (1760–1838) was the last hereditary patriarch of the Eliya line of the Church of the East and the first patriarch of a united Chaldean Church. After the death of his uncle Eliya XI in 1778, he claimed the patriarchal throne in 1780 and made a Catholic profession of faith. In 1783, he was recognized by the Vatican as patriarchal administrator and archbishop of Mosul. His career as patriarchal administrator was controversial, and was marked by a series of conflicts with his own bishops and also with the Vatican. Suspended from his functions in 1812 and again in 1818, he was reinstated by the Vatican in 1828. In 1830, following the death of the Amid patriarchal administrator Augustine Hindi, he was recognised by the Vatican as patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and the Mosul and Amid patriarchates were united under his leadership. This event marked the birth of the since unbroken patriarchal line of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Yohannan Hormizd died in 1838 and his successor Nicholas I Zayʿa was chosen by the Vatican, ending the centuries-old practice of hereditary succession."
tagline: "Patriarch of Chaldean Catholic Church"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yohannan_Hormizd.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1760"
deathDate: "1838-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2917771883289125
  historical:           6.347301333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Йоханнан VIII Хормизд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوحنان الثامن هرمزد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوحنان الثامن هرمزد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohannan_VIII._Hormizd"
    title: "Yohannan VIII. Hormizd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohannan_VIII_Hormizd"
    title: "Yohannan VIII Hormizd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukhannan_VIII_Hormizd"
    title: "Yukhannan VIII Hormizd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohannan_VIII_Hormizd"
    title: "Yohannan VIII Hormizd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2600572"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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