Giwargis II (Church of the East)

Giwargis II (Classical Syriac: ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ ܬܪܝܢܐ) was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 828 to 831.

[1] Modern assessments of his reign can be found in Jean-Maurice Fiey's Chrétiens syriaques sous les Abbassides and David Wilmshurst's The Martyred Church.

He once approached Gabriel ibn Bokhtishoʿ, and asked him to divide equally an estate which a man had seized from him.

Gabriel saw that he was a righteous man, and at his request Timothy appointed him metropolitan of Jundishapur, where he remained for twenty years.

He was elected after the death of Ishoʿ Bar Nun by Gabriel and Mikha'il, but was unsuitable on account of his great age, as he was nearly a hundred years old and suffered from sciatica.