Yosip Khnanisho was a twentieth-century metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East who served the community during periods of significant upheaval. Born in 1893 into a prominent clerical family in the Shamisdan region, he rose through the ecclesiastical ranks quickly, becoming a bishop in 1914 at the age of twenty-two. Throughout his long career, he provided leadership to Assyrian Christians, acting as a primary administrator for the church and holding high-ranking positions in both Iraq and globally.