Early Life
Joseph VI Audo was born in Alqosh in 1790 and in 1814 he became a monk of the monastery of Rabban Hormizd. He was ordained priest in 1818 and consecrated bishop of Mosul on the March 25, 1825 by the patriarchal administrator Augustine Hindi in Amid. From 1830 to 1847 he served as metropolitan bishop of Amadiya.
In the early 19th century there was not yet a formal union between the two patriarchal lines that professed to be in communion with the Holy See. The ancient monastery of Rabban Hormizd, that for many centuries was the see of the Mama patriarchal family supported by most of the East Syrian Christians, in 1808 recognized as own patriarch Mar Augustine Hindi, the leader of patriarchal line started by Mar Joseph I in 1681 in union with Rome. This was fiercely opposed by the last descended of the Mama family, Yohannan Hormizd, he too in communion with Rome. Joseph Audo was a partisan of Mar Augustine Hindi and thus became an active opponent of Yohannan Hormizd: the strong conflict came to an end only for the direct intervention of two apostolic delegates sent by Rome in 1828-1829..
After the death of Augustine Hindi the Chaldean Church was finally united under the aged Yohannan Hormizd in 1830, even if he, and his successor Nicholas I ZayĘża, had to deal an internal opposition of several bishops led by Audo that lasted up to the resignation of patriarch Nicholas Zaya in 1846.
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