Yohannan V
patriarch of the Church of the East
b. 10th century · d. 1011
62nd Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 1000–c. 1011 · dates here from Wikipedia’s list of bishops; Michael the Syrian; ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, Chronique de Michel le Syrien reads 1000–1009
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 62 · c. 1000 – c. 1011
Yohannan V Bar Isa was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1000 to 1011. Brief accounts of Yohannan's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari ibn Suleiman (twelfth-century), ʿAmr ibn Mattā (fourteenth-century) and Ṣalībā ibn Yūḥannā (fourteenth-century).
Related people
- Mari succeeded · inferred
- Yohannan VI 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. 524 (Appendice VI, no. XL)
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…