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#202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Vasileios Papadopoulos</div><br />1892<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Bursa" title="Bursa">Prusa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 10, 1980<sup id="cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOBORNOST-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Hadassah_Medical_Center" title="Hadassah Medical Center">Hadassah Hospital</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_and_Kapodistrian_University_of_Athens" title="National and Kapodistrian University of Athens">University of Athens</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Patriarch Benedict of Jerusalem</b>, also <b>Benediktos I of Jerusalem</b>, born <b>Vasileios Papadopoulos</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248666159">.mw-parser-output .tfd-dated{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .tfd-default{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);clear:both;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tfd-tiny{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tfd-inline{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1)}.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);text-align:center;position:relative}@media(min-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{clear:right;float:right;width:22em}}</style><span class="tfd tfd-dated tfd-tiny"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_12#Template:Lang-grc-gre" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 12">‹See Tfd›</a></span><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Βασίλειος Παπαδόπουλος</span></span>, 1892 – December 10, 1980) was the <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem" title="Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem">Patriarch of Jerusalem</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem">Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem</a> from 1957 to 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benedict_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vasileios was born in 1892 in the village of Cesniero (Τσεσνειριω, modern <a href="/wiki/%C3%87e%C5%9Fnigir,_Karacabey" title="Çeşnigir, Karacabey">Çeşnigir</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Bursa_Province" title="Bursa Province">Bursa</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_of_Nicomedia" title="Metropolis of Nicomedia">Metropolis of Nicomedia</a>, in northwestern <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TEE_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TEE-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He went to Jerusalem in 1906 for his secondary education, graduating from the seminary there in 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOBORNOST-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 3, 1914, he took monastic vows being renamed Benedict, and on the following day he was ordained deacon by Metropolitan Keladion of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaida" title="Ptolemaida">Ptolemaida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TEE_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TEE-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After a two-month period in the patriarchal secretariat, he served during the war as deacon at <a href="/wiki/Acre,_Israel" title="Acre, Israel">Acre</a> and then accompanied Patriarch <a href="/wiki/Damian_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Damian I of Jerusalem">Damianos</a> during his exile to Damascus (1917–18). He returned for three further years to the patriarchal secretariat in Jerusalem from 1918 to 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOBORNOST-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1921 to 1925 he studied at the <a href="/wiki/National_and_Kapodistrian_University_of_Athens" title="National and Kapodistrian University of Athens">University of Athens</a>, in 1925 graduating in law, economics, politics and theology.<sup id="cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOBORNOST-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1927 he represented the Patriarchate of Jerusalem at the First World Conference on Faith and Order at Lausanne.<sup id="cite_ref-DREVO_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DREVO-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 1929 he was put in charge of the Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre in Athens. In October of the same year he was ordained priest, then advanced to the rank of Archimandrite.<sup id="cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOBORNOST-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TEE_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TEE-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Recalled to Jerusalem in 1946, he was elected a member of the Holy Synod, and given special responsibility for the patriarchate's legal and financial affairs, a field in which he displayed marked aptitude.<sup id="cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOBORNOST-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1950 he spoke as the representative of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem at the Geneva Assembly on the internationalization of the Holy City of Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-TEE_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TEE-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DREVO_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DREVO-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1951 he was consecrated Archbishop of Tiberias in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Church of the Holy Sepulchre">Church of the Resurrection</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TEE_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TEE-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Patriarchate">Patriarchate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benedict_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Patriarchate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 29, 1957, he was elected patriarch, succeeding Timotheos who had died over a year earlier. His <a href="/wiki/Enthronement" title="Enthronement">enthronement</a> took place on March 1, 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-TEE_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TEE-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With his election the Jordanian government approved a law establishing new regulations concerning relations between the <a href="/wiki/Brotherhood_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre">Confraternity of the Holy Sepulchre</a> (Brotherhood of the Sepulchre, Hagiotaphites Brotherhood) and the indigenous Arab community of the Orthodox Church.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rules gave the Arab <a href="/wiki/Laity" title="Laity">laity</a> a role in the financial affairs of the Patriarchate, and required that the candidates for the offices of the patriarchate be citizens of Jordan, but the changes were discontinued after negotiation between the Patriarchate and the Jordanians. </p><p>Following his election, Benedict actively pursued a rehabilitation of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Church of the Holy Sepulchre">Church of the Holy Sepulchre</a>. Starting in 1961, after undertaking a North American tour to raise funds,<sup id="cite_ref-GLOBE1961_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GLOBE1961-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the structure was completely rehabilitated, including repair of the foundations and cisterns, and restoration of the interior and exterior walls. Thousand of stones were replaced including removal of old and injection of new mortar. Columns were replaced and new capitals were added. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death_and_burial">Death and burial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benedict_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Death and burial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On December 10, 1980, as the rotunda dome was finished, further restoration of the <a href="/wiki/Church_(building)" title="Church (building)">church</a> came to a halt with the death of Benedict. He died of a heart attack in Jerusalem's <a href="/wiki/Hadassah_Medical_Center" title="Hadassah Medical Center">Hadassah Hospital</a>, where he was recovering from a stroke he had suffered 10 days earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The burial took place on December 14, 1980, at the <a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Ascension,_Jerusalem" title="Chapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem">Church of the Ascension</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" title="Mount of Olives">Mount of Olives</a>. </p><p>A kindly and courteous man, traditionalist in his theology, Patriarch Benedict was critical of the '<a href="/wiki/Ecumenism#Opposition_from_some_Orthodox_Christians" title="Ecumenism">ecumenist</a>' policies of Patriarch <a href="/wiki/Athenagoras_I_of_Constantinople" title="Athenagoras I of Constantinople">Athenagoras of Constantinople</a>, and in his later years was more reserved over questions of Christian unity than any other Orthodox church leader.<sup id="cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SOBORNOST-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was also a very educated man, being fluent in French, English and Arabic, in addition to his native Greek.<sup id="cite_ref-DREVO_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DREVO-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For his services he was honoured with several high church and secular decorations.<sup id="cite_ref-TEE_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TEE-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DREVO_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DREVO-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GRDLDG_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GRDLDG-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Patriarch Benedict I is listed as being a <a href="/wiki/Freemasonry" title="Freemasonry">Mason</a> according to the website of the Grand Lodge of Greece, of the lodge «Αδελφοποίησις».<sup id="cite_ref-GRDLDG_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GRDLDG-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benedict_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"...The question of Jerusalem was relegated to a subcommittee operating separately from the <a href="/wiki/Lausanne_Conference_of_1949" title="Lausanne Conference of 1949">Lausanne Conference</a>; a proposed statute for the internationalization of Jerusalem was presented to the United Nations General Assembly in fall 1950."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "When the Assembly met in December 1950, neither a Swedish resolution calling for functional internationalization nor a Belgian one calling for territorial internationalization was approved and that was the end of the Assembly's consideration of the Jerusalem issue until after the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">June War</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The presence of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Benedictos the I, in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>, if only briefly, is interpreted as a sign Christian shrines in the Holy Land are no longer in any real danger of exposure to Israeli-Jordanian crossfire. His Beatitude left here today after a two-day visit on the first stop of a North American tour. His purpose is to raise $3,000,000 to restore the crumbling shrines, among them the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Other shrines were heavily damaged in shellfire exchanges in the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">Israeli-Arab war in 1948</a>...It was the first time a Greek Orthodox Patriarch has visited <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-GLOBE1961_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GLOBE1961-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benedict_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-SOBORNOST-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SOBORNOST_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Kallistos_Ware" title="Kallistos Ware">Kallistos Ware</a>. <i>"Obituaries: Patriarch Benedict of Jerusalem"</i>. <a href="/wiki/Sobornost_(journal)" title="Sobornost (journal)">Sobornost (incorporating Eastern Churches Review)</a>, New Series 3.1 (1981), 102.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jerusalem-patriarchate.info/πατριάρχης/ἀποστολική-διαδοχή/">Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-TEE-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-TEE_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TEE_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TEE_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TEE_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TEE_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TEE_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TEE_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Greek)</span> Πανώτης Α. <i>"Βενέδικτος."</i> Θρησκευτική και Ηθική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια (ΘΗΕ). Τόμος 3 (Απροσωποληψία-Βυζάντιον). Αθηναι - Αθαν. Μαρτινος, 1963. σελ. 795-797.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DREVO-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DREVO_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DREVO_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DREVO_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DREVO_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span> <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://drevo-info.ru/articles/3935.html">ВЕНЕДИКТ (ПАПАДОПУЛОС)</a>.</i> Открытая православная энциклопедия "Древо" (Open Orthodox Encyclopedia "The Tree"). Retrieved: 28 September 2017.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mattar, Philip. <i>Encyclopedia of the Palestinians.</i> Infobase Publishing, 2005. p. 504.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilson, Evan M. "The Internationalization of Jerusalem." <i>Middle East Journal</i>, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter, 1969), p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Mertens, OFM. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/sbf/escurs/wwc/p.html">Papadopoulos Benedictus</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150714025610/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/sbf/escurs/wwc/p.html">Archived</a> 2015-07-14 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</i> In: <i>Who Was a Christian in the Holy Land?</i> (Christusrex.org). Retrieved: 28 September 2017.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GLOBE1961-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-GLOBE1961_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GLOBE1961_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Patriarch Seeks Aid for Shrines in Jerusalem.</i> <a href="/wiki/The_Globe_and_Mail" title="The Globe and Mail">The Globe and Mail</a>. Thursday September 28, 1961. Page 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jerusalem's Patriarch dies of heart attack.</i> <a href="/wiki/The_Globe_and_Mail" title="The Globe and Mail">The Globe and Mail</a>. December 11, 1980. Page 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GRDLDG-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-GRDLDG_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GRDLDG_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Greek)</span> <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.grandlodge.gr/venediktos--patriarxis-ierosolymon-w-21462.html">Βενέδικτος - Πατριάρχης Ιεροσολύμων</a>.</i> ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΣΤΟΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ (Grand Lodge of Greece). Retrieved: 28 September 2017.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Timotheos_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Timotheos I">Timotheos I</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem" title="Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem">Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem</a> </b><br />March 1, 1957 – December 10, 1980 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Patriarch_Diodoros_of_Jerusalem" title="Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem">Diodoros I</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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href="/wiki/Justus_of_Jerusalem" title="Justus of Jerusalem">Justus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zacchaeus_of_Jerusalem" title="Zacchaeus of Jerusalem">Zacchaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tobias_of_Jerusalem" title="Tobias of Jerusalem">Tobias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_of_Jerusalem" title="Benjamin of Jerusalem">Benjamin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_I_(bishop_of_Jerusalem)" title="John I (bishop of Jerusalem)">John I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthias_of_Jerusalem" title="Matthias of Jerusalem">Matthias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_of_Jerusalem" title="Philip of Jerusalem">Philip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senecas_of_Jerusalem" title="Senecas of Jerusalem">Senecas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justus_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Justus II of Jerusalem">Justus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levis_of_Jerusalem" title="Levis of Jerusalem">Levis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ephram_of_Jerusalem" title="Ephram of Jerusalem">Ephram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Joseph I of Jerusalem">Joseph I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judah_Kyriakos" title="Judah Kyriakos">Judas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_of_Jerusalem" title="Marcus of Jerusalem">Marcus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cassianus_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cassianus of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Cassianus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poplius_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Poplius of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Poplius</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maximus_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maximus I of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Maximus I</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Julian_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julian of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Julian I</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gaius_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaius of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Gaius I</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Symmachus_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Symmachus of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Symmachus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gaius_II_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaius II of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Gaius II</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Julian_II_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julian II of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Julian II</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capion_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Capion of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Capion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximus_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Maximus II of Jerusalem">Maximus II</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antoninus_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Antoninus of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Antoninus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Valens_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Valens of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Valens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolichianus_of_Jerusalem" title="Dolichianus of Jerusalem">Dolichianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narcissus_of_Jerusalem" title="Narcissus of Jerusalem">Narcissus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dius_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Dius of Jerusalem">Dius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanion_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanion of Jerusalem">Germanion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordius_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordius of Jerusalem">Gordius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Jerusalem" title="Alexander of Jerusalem">Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mazabanis_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mazabanis of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Mazabanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imeneus_of_Jerusalem" title="Imeneus of Jerusalem">Imeneus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zamudas_of_Jerusalem" title="Zamudas of Jerusalem">Zamudas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ermon_of_Jerusalem" title="Ermon of Jerusalem">Ermon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macarius_of_Jerusalem" title="Macarius of Jerusalem">Macarius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximus_III_of_Jerusalem" title="Maximus III of Jerusalem">Maximus III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyril_of_Jerusalem" title="Cyril of Jerusalem">Cyril I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_II,_Bishop_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="John II, Bishop of Jerusalem">John II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praulius_of_Jerusalem" title="Praulius of Jerusalem">Praulius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juvenal_of_Jerusalem" title="Juvenal of Jerusalem">Juvenal</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Taphos_sign.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Taphos_sign.svg/30px-Taphos_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Taphos_sign.svg/45px-Taphos_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Taphos_sign.svg/60px-Taphos_sign.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="195" data-file-height="194" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:gold; color:black; text-align: center">Patriarchs of Jerusalem<br />(from 451)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Juvenal_of_Jerusalem" title="Juvenal of Jerusalem">Juvenal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anastasius_of_Jerusalem" title="Anastasius of Jerusalem">Anastasius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martyrius_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Martyrius of Jerusalem">Martyrius</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sallustius_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sallustius of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Sallustius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Elias I of Jerusalem">Elias I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_III_(bishop_of_Jerusalem)" title="John III (bishop of Jerusalem)">John III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_of_Jerusalem" title="Peter of Jerusalem">Peter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macarius_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Macarius II of Jerusalem">Macarius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eustochius_of_Jerusalem" title="Eustochius of Jerusalem">Eustochius</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_IV_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John IV of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">John IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amos_of_Jerusalem" title="Amos of Jerusalem">Amos</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isaac_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isaac of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Isaac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zacharias_of_Jerusalem" title="Zacharias of Jerusalem">Zacharias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modestus_of_Jerusalem" title="Modestus of Jerusalem">Modestus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophronius_of_Jerusalem" title="Sophronius of Jerusalem">Sophronius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anastasius_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Anastasius II of Jerusalem">Anastasius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_V_of_Jerusalem" title="John V of Jerusalem">John V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_of_Jerusalem" title="Theodore of Jerusalem">Theodore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Elias II of Jerusalem">Elias II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_of_Jerusalem" title="George of Jerusalem">George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Thomas I of Jerusalem">Thomas I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_of_Jerusalem" title="Basil of Jerusalem">Basileus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_VI_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John VI of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">John VI</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sergius_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sergius I of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Sergius I</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solomon_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Solomon of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Solomon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodosius_of_Jerusalem_(died_879)" title="Theodosius of Jerusalem (died 879)">Theodosius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_III_of_Jerusalem" title="Elias III of Jerusalem">Elias III</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sergius_II_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sergius II of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Sergius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leontius_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Leontius I of Jerusalem">Leontius I</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Athanasius_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Athanasius I of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Athanasius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christodulus_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Christodulus I of Jerusalem">Christodulus I</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Agathon_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agathon of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Agathon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_VII_of_Jerusalem" title="John VII of Jerusalem">John VII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christodulus_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Christodulus II of Jerusalem">Christodulus II</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_II_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas II of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Thomas II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Joseph II of Jerusalem">Joseph II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orestes_of_Jerusalem" title="Orestes of Jerusalem">Orestes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophilus_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Theophilus I of Jerusalem">Theophilus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicephorus_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Nicephorus I of Jerusalem">Nicephorus I</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joannichius_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joannichius of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Joannichius</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sophronius_II_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sophronius II of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Sophronius II</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Euthemius_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Euthemius of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Euthemius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simeon_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Simeon II of Jerusalem">Simeon II</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Savvas_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Savvas of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Savvas</a><sup>§</sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_VIII_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John VIII of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">John VIII</a><sup>§</sup></li> <li><a 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title="Euthemius II of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Euthemius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athanasius_II_of_Jerusalem" title="Athanasius II of Jerusalem">Athanasius II</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sophronius_III_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sophronius III of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Sophronius III</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gregory_I_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gregory I of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Gregory I</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thaddaeus_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thaddaeus of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Thaddaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Athanasius_III_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Athanasius III of Jerusalem (page does not exist)">Athanasius III</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gregory_II_of_Jerusalem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gregory II of Jerusalem (page does not 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