Sabrisho I
Sabrisho I (also Sabr-Ishu, Syriac for "hope in Jesus") was
Sabrisho was born in 525 in
He was a
He became Bishop of Lashom in 577 and carried out several missionary journeys. He was involved in the conversion of King Nuʿman III of Ḥirta of the Lakhmid kingdom.[1]
Shortly after his appointment in 596, he started to convene a synod which was held in 598 in Seleucia-Ctesiphon[2] where he anathematized the opponents of Theodore of Mopsuestia.[3] Other conflicts during Sabrisho's tenure included that with Henana of Adiabene, who he excommunicated from the Church.
Death and legacy
Sabrisho died in 604. There was a subsequent power struggle over the election of a new Patriarch, between the King, his wife, and the Synod (council) of bishops. The following year, Gregory of Seleucia-Ctesiphon took on the patriarchy.
Sabrisho's friend, Petros the Solitary wrote a memoir entitled "The Life of Sabrisho". It focused on miracles which Sabrisho was said to have carried out. Several miracles were also mentioned in notices in the Chronicle of Siirt (LXV-LXXII; PO 13.4, 154-78).[4]
Sources
- Chabot, Jean-Baptiste (1902). Synodicon orientale ou recueil de synodes nestoriens (PDF). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.
- Wigram, W. A. (2004). An introduction to the history of the Assyrian Church, or, The Church of the Sassanid Persian Empire, 100–640 A.D. Gorgias Press. ISBN 1-59333-103-7.
- ISBN 978-0-415-29770-7.
- Walker, Joel Thomas (2006). The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93219-7.
- Sebastian P. Brock , “Sabrishoʿ I,” in Sabrishoʿ I, edited by Sebastian P. Brock, Aaron M. Butts, George A. Kiraz and Lucas Van Rompay. [1]