Ecclesiastical Chronicle, Volume 2

...and they called him Patriarch Ignatius over the Church of the administration, just as he was like the manner of his predecessors. And the bishop Shamshun of the monastery of Qartmin laid hands upon him; he was the bishop of Hah a village in Tur Abdin. And he had the name of Philoxenus, the bishop, and his administration was there. And in that monastery, he was a bishop and administrator, and Rabban Saliba the Arab, of Barsila a disciple of Mar Josue, son of the priest Esaias, the luminous teacher and eloquent, holy and canonical man, ordained him. He who made the qanuna canon/rule and all that he willed. And this man also, when the body fell, would fulfill the way of the demos people/community according to the holy canon. And he did not [refrain] from the offering of that holy body of Christ. And when he was learning, he did not release the priests. And he would admonish everyone that he was vowed, and he did not release the people who [did not belong] to the Church. And of him we have many things to say, [such as] where there were persecutions, he did not falter. And we have many things to say about these, but these suffice for these matters.

Furthermore, the Patriarch Mardini Chaleph went to the bishop Joseph Bar-Nisan of Mizcha of the mountain, and asked of him that he become Maphrian and be sent to the East. And then the Patriarch, perceiving his prodike disposition/intent, found him to be a Maphrian, and Shamshun laid hands upon him in the name of his episcopacy. But he did not go down to the East, as was fitting for him, neither to the East nor to the West.

...and they called him Patriarch Ignatius over the Church of the administration, just as was the manner of his predecessor. And the bishop of the monastery of Qartmin, Georgius the Severinite, laid hands upon him on the Thursday of the Mysteries Maundy Thursday. He was previously the bishop of Hah, bearing the name Philoxenus, and an alumnus of the monastery of Qartmin, whom the monk Rabban Saliba the Arab, of Barsila, had ordained there—a disciple of Rabban Josue, son of the priest Esaias, a conspicuous and skilled teacher, worthy of memory among the just and the upright. Bar-Sabta also, being chosen, had demonstrated by his own example the manner of the anchoritic life, like the ancient just men, and ruled the flock of Christ in the fear of God; he had never transgressed the canons at all; and if they had hacked him limb from limb to violate one canon, he would not have violated it; he did not restrain his mouth from the assembly of the faithful and from exhortations, wherever he was; surely we have many things to say about him, but here these things shall suffice.

Furthermore, the Patriarch of Mardin, Chaleph, approached the bishop Joseph Bar-Nisan of Mizcha from the mountain, and requested of him to become Maphrian and to be destined for the East. The Patriarch, however, having examined his intent, ordained him Maphrian and called him by the name of his episcopacy, Cyril; in truth, he did not proceed to the East...