Abdisho III

ʿAbdishoʿ III bar Moqli was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1139 to 1148. He reconciled with the Syriac Orthodox in 1142.

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

Bar Sawma was succeeded by ʿAbdishoʿ Bar Moqli, of Mosul, an old man of a fine appearance. He was summoned to the caliph's palace after the election, and after he was crowned with the mitre and seated upon a mule, he progressed as far as the church of the third ward with one of the noblemen of the palace, and there dismounted. He conducted his patriarchate ably for nine years, and was then struck down by an apoplexy. He was consecrated on a Sunday, the tenth day of the latter teshrin [November] in the year 533 of the Arabs [AD 1139], and died on the third day of the latter teshrin in the year 541 of the same era [AD 1147].

A charter of protection granted to ʿAbdishoʿ III in 1139 by the caliph al-Muqtafi was published in 1926 by the Assyrian scholar Alphonse Mingana.