Mar Mari Emmanuel (born Robert Shlimon; 19 July 1970) is an Iraqi-born, Assyrian Australian prelate. He is the bishop of Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, New South Wales, which hosts the highest number of Assyrian Christians—many of them refugees from Iraq and Syria—in any suburban Australian neighbourhood.
In 2011, Emmanuel was ordained a bishop in the Ancient Church of the East, but was suspended in 2014. In 2015, he left that denomination and established an independent church in the Eastern Syriac tradition called Christ the Good Shepherd Church.
His sermons are livestreamed on Christ the Good Shepherd Church's Facebook and YouTube channels, which collectively have a following of 240,000 users. His popularity has garnered online fan pages with thousands of people following him, and he has taken part in interviews on conservative YouTube programs, where he has spoken about religion and criticised homosexuality and the Australian medical policy.
2 October 2018