Sliba-zkha
Sliba-zkha(the name means 'the cross has conquered' in Syriac) was patriarch of theChurch of the Eastfrom 714 to 728.
Sources
[edit]Brief accounts of Sliba-zkha's patriarchate are given in theEcclesiastical Chronicleof the Jacobite writerBar Hebraeus(floruit1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writersMari ibn Suleiman(twelfth-century),ʿAmr(fourteenth-century) andSliba(fourteenth-century). He is also mentioned in an unfavourable anecdote inThomas of Marga'sBook of Governors.
Sliba-zkha's patriarchate
[edit]The following account of Sliba-zkha's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:
The catholicusHnanishoʿwas succeeded by Sliba-zkha, who was consecrated at Seleucia. He was from Karka d'Piroz, which is today called Karkani, in theTirhanregion. He removed the name ofYohannan Garba('the Leper') from the diptychs, reconsecrated the bishops consecrated by Garba, and put back the name ofHnanishoʿ,who had been oppressed by calumny, alongside those of the rest of the catholici. He died after fulfilling his office for fourteen years.[1]
According to ʿAbdishoʿ of Nisibis, Sliba-zkha established metropolitan provinces for Herat, Samarqand, India and China.[2]
See also
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[edit]References
[edit]- 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)
- Brooks, E. W.,Eliae Metropolitae Nisibeni Opus Chronologicum(Rome, 1910)
- 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)
