Isho Bar Nun
Syrian cleric and writer, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 823 to 828
b. c. 743 · d. 1 Apr 828
47th Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 823–c. 828
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 47 · c. 823 – c. 828
Ishoʿ bar Nun was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 823 to 828. He succeeded Timothy I, widely considered to be the most impressive of the Nestorian patriarchs.
Related people
- Timothy I succeeded · inferred
- Giwargis II preceded · inferred
Places
- 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. 522 (Appendice VI, no. XXVI)