Sabrisho V ibn al-Masihi (born Sabrisho bar Masihi) was
Patriarch of the Church of the East
The Patriarch of the Church of the East (also known as Patriarch of the East, Patriarch of Babylon, the Catholicose of the East or the Grand Metropolitan of the East) is the patriarch, or leader and head bishop (sometimes referred to as Catholic ...
from 1226 to 1256.
Sources
Brief accounts of Sabrisho's patriarchate are given in the ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' of the Jacobite writer
Bar Hebraeus
Gregory Bar Hebraeus ( syc, ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ, b. 1226 - d. 30 July 1286), known by his Syriac ancestral surname as Bar Ebraya or Bar Ebroyo, and also by a Latinized name Abulpharagius, was an Aramean Maphrian (regional primat ...
() and in the ecclesiastical histories of the fourteenth-century Nestorian writers Amr and Sliba.
Sabrisho's patriarchate
The following account of Sabrisho's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:
In the year 623 of the Arabs D 1226 on the twelfth day of the fourth month, on the first Sunday after Easter, Sabrisho bar Masihi, metropolitan of Daquqa, was consecrated catholicus, because he bribed the caliph al-Zahir with gold. This happened because he had won the respect of the caliph's brothers, who were distinguished noblemen, just as he himself was an honourable man, of a pleasant disposition, straightforward and affable, and on that account loved by all. He died on a Sunday, on the twenty-third day of the fourth month of the year 654 of the Arabs D 1256 after fulfilling his office for thirty-one years, and was buried in the church of Sergius and Bacchus in Karkha. He was succeeded by Makkikha, metropolitan of Nisibis.[Bar Hebraeus, ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 400–02]
During his patriarchate, somewhere around 1233, Rome established contacts with the Church of the East, by sending
Dominicans. In 1247 Sabrisho sent his vicar Rabban Ara to Rome to
Pope Innocent IV
Pope Innocent IV ( la, Innocentius IV; – 7 December 1254), born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 June 1243 to his death in 1254.
Fieschi was born in Genoa and studied at the universitie ...
in order to work on the union between the two churches. Rabban Ara was consecrated a patriarch in Rome, but it's unknown whether this union had a major significance.
See also
*
List of patriarchs of the Church of the East
Notes
References
*
Abbeloos, J. B., and
Lamy, T. J., ''Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum'' (3 vols, Paris, 1877)
*
Assemani, J. A.
Giuseppe Luigi Assemani (1710 on Mount Lebanon Tripoli, Lebanon, TripoliFebruary 9, 1782 in Rome) was a Lebanon, Lebanese Catholic priest, an oriental studies, orientalist and a Professor of Oriental languages in Rome.
Assemani came from a well kn ...
, ''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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Patriarchs of the Church of the East
13th-century bishops of the Church of the East
Nestorians in the Abbasid Caliphate
1256 deaths