Sabrisho III explained

Honorific-Prefix:Mar
Sabrisho III
Birth Name:Sabrisho Zanbur
Church:Church of the East
See:Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Patriarch Of:Patriarch of the Church of the East
Patriarch of All the East
Enthroned:1064
Ended:1072
Predecessor:Yohannan VII
Successor:Abdisho II
Death Date:1072
Other Post:Bishop of Nishapur

Sabrisho III Zanbur was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1064 to 1072.

Sources

Brief accounts of Sabrisho's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), and (fourteenth-century).

Sabrisho's patriarchate

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

Yohannan VII was succeeded by Sabrisho Zanbur ('the wasp'), the bishop of Nishapur. His election was pushed through by force by Abu Said the tax-collector of Ispahan, who compelled the bishops and obtained their agreement. Being anxious to gratify the metropolitan Abdisho of Nisibis, he introduced the custom of allowing the metropolitan of Nisibis to take part in the election of a patriarch. He was consecrated on a Sunday, on the third day of ab [August] in the year 1372 of the Greeks [AD 1061]. Shortly afterwards he was struck by an apoplexy and lost the use of his limbs. He fulfilled his office for ten years and died on the third day of nisan [April] in the year 1383 [AD 1072].[1]

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References

Notes and References

  1. Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 302