Yohannan Tamraz was succeeded in 1883 by Joseph Gabriel Adamo of Seert. He was born in 1851 and educated by the Propaganda. He copied two manuscripts as a deacon at Mosul in 1869, whose colophons mention that his father's name was Peter and his grandfather's Abd al-Masih.MSS Assfalg Syr 26 (1869) and 27 (1 June 1869) He was ordained a priest on 21 April 1878, and was consecrated metropolitan of Kirkuk on 26 August 1883 in Mosul by the patriarch Eliya Abulyonan (d. 1894). He represented the Chaldean church at the Eighth International Eucharistic Conference, held in Jerusalem in 1893. In 1894 he was elected by a majority of the Chaldean bishops to succeed patriarch Eliya Abulyonan, but declined the honour. He died at the age of 49 on 4 June 1899.
