Honorific-Prefix: | Mar |
Ishoyahb V | |
Birth Name: | Ishoyahb Baladi |
Church: | Church of the East |
See: | Seleucia-Ctesiphon |
Patriarch Of: | Patriarch of the Church of the East |
Patriarch of All the East | |
Enthroned: | 1149 |
Ended: | 25 May 1175 |
Predecessor: | Abdisho III |
Successor: | Eliya III |
Death Date: | 25 May 1175 |
Other Post: | Bishop of Hirta |
Ishoyahb V Baladi was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1149 to 1175.
Brief accounts of Ishoyahb's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus and in the ecclesiastical histories of the fourteenth-century Nestorian writers and .
The following account of Ishoyahb's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:
Then Ishoyahb, 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]