Yohannan V

Mar Yohannan V
Patriarch of All the East
Church	Church of the East
See	Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Installed	1000
Term ended	1011
Predecessor	Mari
Successor	Yohannan VI
Other post(s)	Bishop of Shenna, Metropolitan of Fars
Personal details
Born	Yohannan bar Isa
Died	1011

Ordination history of Yohannan V
History Episcopal consecration Consecrated by Patriarch Mari
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by Yohannan V as principal consecrator Elijah of Nisibis 15 February 1002

Yohannan V Bar Isa was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1000 to 1011.[1] Brief accounts of Yohannan's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (fl. 1280) 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).

Life

Yohannan was bishop of al-Sin or Shenna when he was consecrated as archbishop of Fars by Patriarch Mari (r. 987–999).[2] He ordained Elijah, the future archbishop of Nisibis, at the monastery of Mar Shemʿon in his role as bishop of Shenna on 15 September 994.[3]

According to Bar Hebraeus:

After the catholicus Mari had fulfilled his office for fourteen years, he died in the first month of the year 390 of the Arabs, that is to say on the twenty-eighth day of the former kanun [December] in the year 1311 of the Greeks [AD 999]. He was succeeded by Yunanis II,[a] the metropolitan of Fars. This man, when he heard of the death of Mari, went to Shiraz, to the governor Baha al-Dawla, and won his support. Baha al-Dawla thereupon ordered that he should become catholicus. When the nobles of Baghdad heard that he had assumed the leadership uncanonically, by going to the governor's palace without being either elected or acclaimed, they were deeply offended, but were unable to oppose the edict. And so he was consecrated catholicus against the wishes of his people.[4]

Yohannan consecrated Elijah as bishop of Beth Nuhadra (present-day Dohuk, Iraq) on 15 February 1002.[3]

Bar Hebraeus also reported in his Ecclesiastical Chronicle that Abdisho, the Metropolitan of Merv, wrote and informed Catholicos Yohannan between 1007 and 1009 concerning the conversion of 200,000 Keraites to the Church of the East requesting directions concerning the observance of Lent for the Keraites lived almost exclusively on milk and meat and could not give up both. It is reported that Yohannan responded that a fast which we now call Molokan should be permitted to them.[5]

See also

• List of patriarchs of the Church of the East
• Sergius of Samarkand

Notes

1. Bar Hebraeus called Yohannan V and his predecessor Yohannan IV (900–05) Yunanis, an alternative name for Yohannan more frequently used in the Syrian Orthodox Church than in the Church of the East. For Bar Hebraeus, therefore, he is the patriarch 'Yunanis II'. The Nestorian sources correctly style him Yohannan V.

References

Citations

1. Baum & Winkler 2003, p. 174.
2. Sliba 94 (Arabic)
3. Chronography, i. 112.
4. Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 260–2
5. I. Gilman & H. Klimkeit, Christians in Asia before 1500, Curzon, 1999. pp 226-229

Bibliography

• Abbeloos, J. B., and Lamy, T. J., Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (3 vols, Paris, 1877)
• Assemani, J. A., De Catholicis seu Patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum (Rome, 1775)
• Baum, Wilhelm; Winkler, Dietmar W. (2003). The Church of the East: a concise history. London & New York: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780203423097.
• E.W. Brooks, ed. (1910). Opus Chronologicum by Elias, Bishop of Nisibis.
• Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria I: Amri et Salibae Textus (Rome, 1896)
• Gismondi, H., Maris, Amri, et Salibae: De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria II: Maris textus arabicus et versio Latina (Rome, 1899)

Church of the East titles
Preceded by Mari (987–999)	Catholicos-Patriarch of the East (1000–1011)	Succeeded by Yohannan VI (1012–1020)