Syriac Orthodox Bishop of Jerusalem

In the Syriac Orthodox Church, the bishop of Jerusalem today bears the additional title of Patriarchal Vicar of the Holy Land and Jordan.[1]

List

The Syriac Orthodox Register of Episcopal Ordinations only goes back to 793. The patriarch Michael the Syrian (died 1199) appended to his Chronicle a list of bishops of Jerusalem from James, brother of Jesus, down to his own time. It is identical to the Register for the bishops after 793. The bishops were of metropolitan rank.[2]

In the following list, the symbol × indicates that the dates represent termini post et ante quem, the limits within which the actual episcopate, which cannot be dated more precisely, falls. Bishops before 793 cannot be dated at all. The list begins with the first bishop elected in opposition to the Council of Chalcedon (451), but the numbering takes into account the earlier bishops of Jerusalem.[3]

  • Theodosius (451–453)
  • Anastasius
  • Martyrius
  • Sallustianus
  • Elias
  • Cyril II
  • Jeremy I
  • Thomas I
  • John I
  • Philoxenus I
  • Timothy I (792×818)
  • Job (816×845)
  • Ignatius I (816×846)
  • Joseph III (816×846)
  • John II (845×875)
  • Cyril III Noah (845×875)
  • Cyriacus
  • Severus (877×884)
  • Joseph IV (909×924)
  • Theodore (909×924)
  • Cyril IV (922×936)
  • Jeremy II (935×954)
  • Thomas II (964×986)
  • John III (1006×1031)
  • Philoxenus II (1003×1031)
  • Zacharias (1041×1058)
  • Thomas III (1041×1058)
  • Timothy II (1062×1074)
  • John IV (1079×1083)
  • Cyril V (1090×1130)
  • David (1090×1130)
  • Ignatius II Hesnun (1090×1130)
  • Ignatius III Gadina (1123×1140)
  • Ignatius IV Romanus (1138×1167)
  • Athanasius (1167×1200)
  • Ignatius V (1167×1200)

...

Notes
  1. Kiraz & Van Rompay (2011).
  2. Palmer 1991, p. 27.
  3. List drawn from Chabot 1905, p. 493 and Palmer 1991, pp. 36–37.
  4. Ignatius Jacob III (2008), p. 216.

Bibliography
  • Chabot, Jean-Baptiste, ed. (1905). Chronique de Michel le Syrien. Vol. III. Paris: Ernest Leroux.
  • Ignatius Jacob III (2008). History of the Monastery of Saint Matthew in Mosul. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press.
  • Kiraz, George A.; Van Rompay, Lucas (2011). "Jerusalem". In Sebastian P. Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Gorgias Press, electronic edition by Beth Mardutho. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  • Palmer, Andrew (1991). "The History of the Syrian Orthodox in Jerusalem". Oriens Christianus. 75: 16–43.
  • Palmer, Andrew (1992). "The History of the Syrian Orthodox in Jerusalem, Part  II: Queen Melisende and the Jacobite Estates". Oriens Christianus. 76: 74–94.
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