Sources
Accounts of Yohannan's patriarchate are given in the ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (''floruit'' 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari ibn Suleiman (twelfth-century), (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century)Yohannan's patriarchate
Bar Hebraeus devoted two paragraphs to Yohannan's patriarchate:The caliph issued a decree that the bishops should be free to choose whomever they wished as their leader, and was consecrated at Seleucia on the fifth feast day of the year 287 of the Arabs (AD 900/1). He was a man revered for his knowledge and continence. In his days the metropolitan Theodore of Beth Garmaï was detected in fornication and deposed.
The catholicus Yohannan, after he had fulfilled his office for nearly five years, died in the year 292 D 904/5 The story goes that he never took a bribe for the laying on of hands, and led a life of very great poverty. When he was about to die he said to his disciple, 'Behold, I have 260 ''zuzae'' of silver hidden away in such and such a place, which were bequeathed to me by my parents. Take them, and spend them on my funeral.Bar Hebraeus, ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' (ed. Abeloos and Lamy), ii. 228–30
See also
* List of patriarchs of the Church of the EastNotes
References
* 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)External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yohannan Iv Patriarchs of the Church of the East 10th-century bishops of the Church of the East Nestorians in the Abbasid Caliphate