Patriarchs of the Church of the East
Mar Ishoʿyahb 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 | 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]
