Ishoyahb V

Mar Isho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)yahb V
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	Isho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)yahb Baladi
Died	25 May 1175

Isho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)yahb V Baladi was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1149 to 1175.

Sources

Brief accounts of Isho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)yahb'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.

Ishoyahb's patriarchate

The following account of Isho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)yahb's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:

Then Isho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)yahb, 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]

See also

• List of patriarchs of the Church of the East

Notes

1. Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 330

References

• Abbeloos, J. B., and Lamy, T. J., Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (3 vols, Paris, 1877)
• Assemani, J. A., De Catholicis seu Patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum (Rome, 1775)
• Brooks, E. W., Eliae Metropolitae Nisibeni Opus Chronologicum (Rome, 1910)
• Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria I: Amri et Salibae Textus (Rome, 1896)
• Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria II: Maris textus arabicus et versio Latina (Rome, 1899)

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Church of the East titles
Preceded by [[Abdisho III|[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help)Abdisho[ʿ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help) III]] (1139–1148)	Catholicos-Patriarch of the East (1149–1175)	Succeeded by Eliya III (1176–1190)