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Robert Shlimon was born in 1970 in Haditha, Baghdad, Iraq to a devout Christian family. He settled in Sydney, Australia in the early 1980s, where he attended Fairfield High School. He worked as a bank manager in the 1990s, before becoming a deacon in the late 1990s and then being ordained a priest in 2009.[2]
Tenure as Bishop
In August 2011, Mar Yacoub Daniel and Mar Zaia Khoshaba consecrated Mar Mari Emmanuel as a suffragan bishop for the archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand, assisting the Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand. Previously known as reverend Emmanuel Shlimon, he adopted the episcopal name of 'Mari Emmanuel' (after Saint Mari) at the time of becoming a bishop.[3]
Suspension
In July 2013, while on a visit to Australia, Mar Addai II bestowed the patriarchal confirmation upon Mari Emmanuel. At the time, though, he ordered him to make changes in regard to a range of different areas such as the liturgical, theological and social conduct of the bishop. The patriarch's deadline expired, and Addai II suspended Mari Emmanuel in July 2014, on the grounds of disobeying canons promulgated by the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325. The suspension was briefly withdrawn in December 2014 when the bishop declared his acceptance of the patriarchal decrees, but renewed when he expressed his disagreement a second time.[4]
Independence
In January 2015, Mari Emmanuel established an independent church in Wakeley which is currently known as Christ The Good Shepherd Church. The Holy Synod of the church discussed his case at a meeting in 2015, and in 2016 he was received in communion again by metropolitan Toma Gewargis, who also paid a visit to the church later that year.[4] As of March 2023, Mar Mari Emmanuel was not listed among the clergy of the Assyrian Church's Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and Lebanon.
Recognition
The Bishop has since gained popularity through TikTok, earning him the sobriquet "TikTok Bishop", and has appeared on YouTube podcasts such as PBD Podcast and Valuetainment with Patrick Bet-David and Vincent Oshana, where the videos had garnered over 700K views.[5] One such video from podcast is titled "Satan Has Engulfed the Churches", where the Bishop expresses his opinions on Pope Francis "going woke".[6]
Controversies
On 19 July 20, 2021, amid the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant outbreaks and the lockdown in Sydney, the bishop presented an online sermon that reprimanded the COVID-19 vaccinations and lockdowns, stating that the coronavirus is "just another type of the flu, no more, no less" and called it a "plandemic". His YouTube video had been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom agreeing with the bishop on how the pandemic impacts society's mental health and the economy of Western Sydney.[7]
In his video, he implored the-then Australian prime minister Scott Morrison and NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian to do more and aid those with financial and emotional adversity, in addition to saying, "have we really lost the plot?". Though the Australian government discouraged the video's information, with NSW health minister Brad Hazzard responding, "anti-vaxxers obviously live in another universe", stating how serious and fatal the virus is.[8][9]
