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.
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).
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]