Sabrishoʿ V ibn al-Masihi (bornSabrishoʿ bar Masihi) wasPatriarch of the Church of the East from 1226 to 1256.

Brief accounts ofSabrishoʿ's patriarchate are given in theEcclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writerBar Hebraeus (fl. 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the fourteenth-century Nestorian writersʿAmr and Sliba.

The following account ofSabrishoʿ's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:

In the year 623 of the Arabs [AD 1226], on the twelfth day of the fourth month, on the first Sunday after Easter,Sabrishoʿ bar Masihi, metropolitan of Daquqa, was consecrated catholicus, because he bribed the caliph al-Zahir with gold. This happened because he had won the respect of the caliph's brothers, who were distinguished noblemen, just as he himself was an honourable man, of a pleasant disposition, straightforward and affable, and on that account loved by all. He died on a Sunday, on the twenty-third day of the fourth month of the year 654 of the Arabs [AD 1256], after fulfilling his office for thirty-one years, and was buried in the church of Sergius and Bacchus in Karkha. He was succeeded byMakkikha, metropolitan of Nisibis.^[1]

During his patriarchate, somewhere around 1233, Rome established contacts with the Church of the East, by sendingDominicans. In 1247 Sabrisho sent his vicar Rabban Ara to Rome toPope Innocent IV in order to work on the union between the two churches. Rabban Ara was consecrated a patriarch in Rome, but it's unknown whether this union had a major significance.^[2]

• List of patriarchs of the Church of the East

• Abbeloos, J. B., andLamy, 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)

• Patriarchs of the Church of the East
• 13th-century bishops of the Church of the East
• 13th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
• Church of the East Christians from the Abbasid Caliphate
• 1256 deaths

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