Mar Ishoʿyahb V | |
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Patriarch of All the East | |
Church | Church of the East |
See | Seleucia-Ctesiphon |
Installed | 1149 |
Term ended | 25 May 1175 |
Predecessor | Abdisho III |
Successor | Eliya III |
Other post(s) | Bishop of Hirta |
Personal details | |
Born | Ishoʿyahb Baladi |
Died | 25 May 1175 |
Ishoʿyahb V Baladi was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1149 to 1175.
Brief accounts of Ishoʿyahb's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus ( fl. 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the fourteenth-century Nestorian writers ʿAmr ibn Mattā and Ṣalībā ibn Yūḥannā.
The following account of Ishoʿyahb's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:
Then Ishoʿyahb, an old and chaste man from Balad, who had formerly been bishop of Hirta, was made catholicus, for he was chosen by a certain famous doctor named Abu Mansur, son of a wise scribe. He was consecrated on the second Sunday of the Dedication of the Church, in the year 542 [AD 1147], and after he had fulfilled his office for twenty-eight years, he died on the night of the second Sunday after Ascension, on the twenty-fifth day of iyyar [May], in the year 570 of the Arabs [AD 1174]. He was succeeded by Eliya III, known as Abu Halim. [1]