Ishoyahb V

Ishoʿyahb V Baladi was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1149 to 1175.

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

Sources

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.

Ishoyahb's patriarchate

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]

See also

• List of patriarchs of the Church of the East