Mar Shimun XIII Dinkha was Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church carrying the title Patriarch of Babylon between 1662 and 1692 in communion with Rome and residing in Khosrau-Abad near Salmas. He was the last in the hereditary Shimun line of Patriarchs in the Chaldean Catholic Church and, like his predecessors Shimun X Eliyah (1600–1638), Shimun XI Eshuyow (1638–1656) and Shimun XII Yoalaha (1656–1662), was allegedly not officially recognized by Rome since the Catholic church does not approve of hereditary patriarchates.
Mar Shimun XIII Dinkha | |
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| Patriarch of the Chaldeans Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East | |
| Church | Chaldean Catholic Church (1662–1692) Assyrian Church of the East (until 1700) |
| See | Patriarchial See of Babylon of the Chaldeans (until 1692) Holy Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (until 1700) |
| Installed | 1662 |
| Term ended | 1692 (in the Chaldean Catholic Church) 1700 (in the Assyrian Church of the East) |
| Predecessor | Shimun XII Yoalaha (Chaldean Catholic Church) Eliya IX (Church of the East) |
| Successor | Joseph I (Chaldean Catholic Church) (from 1681) Shimun XIV Shlemon (Assyrian Church of the East) |
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| Died | c. 1700 |
| Residence | Khosrau-Abad near Salmas, Safavid Empire then later moved to Qodshanis, Ottoman Empire |
In 1692, Patriarch Shimun XIII moved the seat of his patriarchate to Qochanis (modern-day Konak, Hakkari), broke communion with Rome and became Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, continuing the Shimun hereditary line of Patriarchs in the Assyrian church instead, a tradition that continued until the death of Patriarch Shimun XXI Eshai in 1975.
Patriarch Shimun Dinkha died around 1700 AD and was succeeded in the Assyrian Church of the East by Shemʿon XIV Shlemon.