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Ishoʿyahb IV bar Ezekiel 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 1020 to 1025. He was an unpopular patriarch, who was defied by many of his metropolitans and bishops.


Sources

Brief accounts of Ishoʿyahb'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 Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), and (fourteenth-century). 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''.


Ishoʿyahb's patriarchate

The following account of Ishoʿyahb's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:
Yohannan VI Yohannan VI bar Nazuk was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1012 until his death, which is given by various sources as being in 1016 or 1020. Life Brief accounts of Yohannan's patriarchate are given in the ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' of th ...
was succeeded by Ishoʿyahb, the son of Ezekiel, bishop of Qasr. He was consecrated in the same year, on the third Sunday of the Annunciation, after he had given a bribe of 5,000 dinars to the governor, who ordered that all those who criticised this arrangement should be drowned. The bishop of Anbar read the gospel over him, and when he came to the verse 'And when they had dined', he left out the letter 'T' from the verb ''eshtari'' and mispronounced the verse as 'And when they had dismissed him' (''eshari''), alluding to the deposition of a tyrannical ruler. Many bishops refused to proclaim him in the diptychs. He fulfilled his office for four years and six months, being a man already old and bowed down in years, and died in the fourth month of the Arabs in the year 416 D 1025
According to Mari, the manner of Ishoʿyahb's election was resented by many bishops, who left their dioceses and refused to allow his name to be proclaimed. Mari also said that Ishoʿyahb's short reign of four years and six months was marked by 'disputes and disorders painful to relate and unhelpful to explain', implying that the patriarch's instructions were defied by many of his metropolitans and bishops. Disorder even marked his death. Baghdad at this period was the frequent target of bandit raids and in 1025 its western suburb of Karkh was burned down in a particularly bold raid. Ishoʿyahb IV died in May 1025, and his funeral ceremony had to be held at night for fear that its traditional extravagance might attract unwelcome attention.Mari, 117–18 (Arabic), 103–4 (Latin); Wilmshurst, ''The Martyred Church'', 201


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., ''De Catholicis seu Patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum'' (Rome, 1775) * Brooks, E. W., ''Eliae Metropolitae Nisibeni Opus Chronologicum'' (Rome, 1910) * Fiey, J. M., ''Chrétiens syriaques sous les Abbassides, surtout à Bagdad (749–1258)'' (Louvain, 1980) * 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) *Wilmshurst, David, ''The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East'' (London, 2011). {{DEFAULTSORT:Ishoyahb 04 Patriarchs of the Church of the East 11th-century bishops of the Church of the East Nestorians in the Abbasid Caliphate 1025 deaths