Yahballaha I

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Yahballaha I was bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, grand metropolitan and primate of the Church of the East from 415 to 420. He is included in the traditional list of patriarchs of the Church of the East. During his tenure he conducted the second council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in his episcopate, [1] addressing tensions rising with the church in the Roman Empire.

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Brief accounts of Yahballaha's reign are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (floruit 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), ʿAmr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century). His life is also covered in the Chronicle of Seert. In all these accounts he is anachronistically called 'catholicus', a term that was only applied to the primates of the Church of the East towards the end of the fifth century.

Modern assessments of his reign can be found in Wigram's Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church and David Wilmshurst's The Martyred Church. [2]

Yahballaha's reign

The following account of Yahballaha's reign is given by Bar Hebraeus:

After Ahai, Yahballaha. His name means 'gift of God'. He was a pious and learned man, and was consecrated in the sixteenth year of Yazdegerd, king of the Persians. He is said to have brought back to life a dead man. He was held in great honour by the Persians. When he had fulfilled his office for five years he was warned by the spirit that Yazdegerd was about to return to his insanity and launch a further persecution against the Christians. Then, as he had sought in prayer, he departed to God. [3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Curtin, D. P. (Aug 2015). Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon: Under Yahbalaha I 420 AD. ISBN   9781087970455.
  2. ↑ Wigram, Assyrian Church, 108–14; Wilmshurst, The Martyred Church, 21
  3. ↑ Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 54

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Church of the East titles
Preceded by
Ahha
(410–414)
 Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
(415–420)		Succeeded by
Maʿna
(420)
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