Abdisho I

patriarch of the Church of the East

b. 10th century · d. 10th century

60th Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 963–c. 986

Offices

Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 60 · c. 963 – c. 986

ʿAbdishoʿ I was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 963 to 986.

Related people

Israel succeeded · inferred
Mari preceded · inferred

Places

Kirkuk birth
Baghdad death

How we know

Recorded as a historical figure.

Maris, Amri et Slibae De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria (the Book of the Tower) 1 claim — Maris, De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria (ed. Gismondi)
Chronique de Michel le Syrien 1 claim — t. III, p. 524 (Appendice VI, note to no. XXXVIII)

Glosses

Where Michael's list of the East begins Michael the Syrian closes his chronicle with an appendix headed the names of the Nestorian catholicoi, and it numbers forty men. Its first is Acacius, who belongs about 485; the twenty-two this line carries before him…