Mar Mari Emmanuel

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on the grounds of disobeying canons promulgated by the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325.[2] The suspension was briefly withdrawn in December 2014 when the bishop declared his acceptance of the patriarchal decrees, but renewed when he expressed his disagreement a second time.

In January 2015, Mari Emmanuel established an independent church in Wakeley which is currently known as Christ The Good Shepherd Church.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

Since 2017, Mari Emmanuel annually visits the United States and Canada where he conducts preaching ministries in several states and provinces such as Illinois, Arizona, California and Ontario. He has also paid several visits to the separatist and anti-patriarchal parish in Modesto, California, and the congregation acknowledge him as a spiritual prelate alongside the two metropolitans and recite his name in their litanies. Mari Emmanuel's 'Christ The Good Shepherd Church' also celebrates Christmas according to the Gregorian calendar date in line with the patriarchal decree of June 2010, making it a new calendarist church rather than an old-calendarist one.

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. In his video, he implored the 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]

On March 2023, the bishop presented an online sermon commenting on a video taken a few days before. The video shows a group of anti LGBT activists being barred from entering a Catholic church. [9] During his sermon, he attacked the priest for being pro LGBT and asked his bishop to excommunicate him. The video was widely shared on social media.[10]