Hnanisho II

Hnanishoʿ II (born c.715) was patriarch of the Church of the East between 773 and 780. His name, sometimes spelled Ananjesu or Khnanishu, means 'mercy of Jesus'.

Sources

Brief accounts of Hnanishoʿ'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 (twelfth-century), ʿAmr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century).

Hnanisho's patriarchate

The following account of Hnanishoʿ's patriarchate is given by Bar Hebraeus, who was more interested in his influential sponsor ʿIsa the pharmacist than in the patriarch himself: