Saint Mar Yosip Khnanisho X
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Mar Yosip Khnanisho (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܝܘܣܦ ܚܢܢܝܫܘܥ) was a holy man from the Mar Khnanishu family. He studied with Rev. Rehana, the head of the Seminary in Mar Ishu Monastery. Mar Yosip was ordained a deacon at age 12 and ordained as a priest in 1912. In 1914, he was sent as a delegate to participate in a meeting at the patriarchal cell in Qudchanis to discuss the effects of the World War on the Church and the nation and prepare for the changes that were expected to take place. While there he was consecrated a Bishop on August 10, 1914, by His Holiness and was appointed as assistant to the Patriot.
He remained in Qudchanis until 1916. In December of 1918 he was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan in Baghdad Iraq, by the Patriarch Mar Paulos Shimon. In 1933, he was made administrator of the Church in Iraq and the Middle East. In 1973 when Mar Eshai Shimon resigned his position as the Catholicos Patriarch, Mar Yosip Khnanisho was vested with responsibilities of administering the Church of the East throughout the world. At the same time the Iraqi government issued a Republican decree appointing Mar Yosip Khnanisho as the Supreme Head of all the Assyrians in Iraq.
On Sunday the 3rd of July 1977, at 1:10 PM. Yosip died in Baghdad, Iraq. His funeral services were conducted on Wednesday July 6, 1977, at the Church of Mar Gewargis in Dora, a suburb of Baghdad.
Mar Yosip Khnanisho Church in San Jose, California is named after the Patriarch.
