Shimun XIX Benyamin

Mar Shimun XIX Benaymin () was the 117th Patriarch of the Church of the East. He was an ethnic Assyrian born in 1887 in the village of Qudshanis, Hakkari Province, during the Ottoman Empire. He was also a spiritual leader for the Assyrian volunteers during World War I. In 3 March 1918, he was killed by the Kurdish chieftain Simko Shikak under a truce flag in the town of Kuhnashahir, Salmas.

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Category:1887 births
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Category:Assyrian people
Category:Bishops
Category:Christian saints
Category:Iranian people
Category:Murder in Asia