Șliba-zkha (Syriac, 'the Cross has conquered') was patriarch of the Church of the East from 714 to 728.
Sources Brief accounts of Sliba-zkha's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Barhebraeus (floruit 1280) and by the Church of the East works by Mari ibn Suleiman (twelfth century) and Amr ibn Matta (fourteenth century), and in the Martyrology of Rabban Sliba (fourteenth century). He is also mentioned in an unfavourable anecdote in Thomas of Marga's Book of Governors.
Sliba-zkha's patriarchate The following account of Sliba-zkha's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus:
According to Abdisho bar Berika, Sliba-zkha established metropolitan provinces for Herat, Samarqand, India, and China.Mai, Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio, x. 141
See also List of patriarchs of the Church of the East
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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)
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