possible, but by no means certain, that Ishoʿyahb was behind this initiative. See also List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East Notes 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) Scher, Addai (ed. and tr.). Histoire nestorienne inédite: Chronique de Séert. Première partie. Patrologia Orientalis 4.3 (1908), 5.2 (1910). Scher, Addai (ed. and tr.). Histoire nestorienne inédite: Chronique de Séert. Seconde partie. Patrologia Orientalis 7.2 (1911), 13.4 (1919). Seleznyov, Nikolai N., Heraclius and Ishōʿyahb II: An Eastern episode in the ‘ecumenical’ project of the Byzantine emperor published in: Symbol 61: Syriaca • Arabica • Iranica. Paris-Moscow, 2012, pp. 280–300. Wilmshurst, D. J., The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East (London, 2011) Wright, W., A Short History of Syriac Literature (London, 1894) Church of the East in China Patriarchs of the Church of the East 645 deaths Year of birth unknown Christians in the Sasanian Empire Church of the East writers Christian hymnwriters 7th-century archbishops Christians of the Rashidun Caliphate 7th-century bishops of the Church of the East