ʾAbdishoʾ III bar Moqli was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1139 to 1148.
Brief accounts of Abdisho's patriarchate are given in the ecclesiastical history of the Nestorian writer Mari ibn Suleiman (fl.
1140), in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (fl.
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].
[1] A charter of protection granted to Abdisho III in 1139 by the caliph al-Muqtafi was published in 1926 by the Assyrian scholar Alphonse Mingana.