Yaqob II
44th Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 753–c. 773
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 44 · c. 753 – c. 773
Yaʿqob II (699–?) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 753 to 773. He is included in the traditional list of patriarchs of the Church of the East. He spent much of his reign in prison after offending the caliph al-Mansur.
Related people
- Hnanisho II preceded · inferred
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, nos. XXII-XXIII)