Pethion

Patriarch of the Church of the East

d. 740

42nd Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 731–c. 740

Offices

Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 42 · c. 731 – c. 740

Pethion was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 731 to 740.

Related people

Sliba-zkha succeeded · inferred
Aba II preceded · inferred

Places

Beth Garmai birth

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. XX)