Sabrisho IV

Sabrishoʿ IV bar Qayyoma was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1222 until his death in 1225.

Mar Sabrisho IV
Patriarch of All the East
Church	Church of the East
See	Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	1222
Term ended	8 June 1225
Predecessor	Yahballaha II
Successor	Sabrisho V
Personal details
Born	Sabrishoʿ bar Qayyoma
Died	8 June 1225
Residence	Baghdad

Sources

Brief accounts of Sabrishoʿ'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 and Sliba.

Modern assessments of his reign can be found in Jean-Maurice Fiey's Chrétiens syriaques sous les Abbassides and David Wilmshurst's The Martyred Church.^[1]

Sabrisho's patriarchate

The following account of Sabrishoʿ's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:

Yahballaha II was succeeded by Sabrishoʿ, his nephew by his brother, also as a result of the gold which he conveyed to the governor by the hand of the celebrated Amin al-Dawla Abu'lkarim, son of Thomas, namely 7,000 dinars. He died on the second Sunday of the month, on the eighth day of the sixth month of the year 622 of the Arabs (AD 1225/6), and was buried next to his uncle. He was succeeded by Sabrishoʿ bar Masihi.^[2]

See also

• List of patriarchs of the Church of the East