John IX (Jerusalem)

John IX († before 1166 in Constantinople ) was a Melchite Orthodox patriarch in exile of Jerusalem .

Johannes was initially a monk, first in the Palestinian town of Mar Saba , then perhaps in the Chrysostomos monastery near Kutzuventi (Cyprus). In Constantinople he was appointed successor to the Jerusalem patriarch Nikolaos (last attested in 1156) under Emperor Manuel I Komnenos . Like him, he resided in exile in Constantinople because of the Crusader rule over Jerusalem (1099–1187), more precisely in the imperial monastery of St. Diomedes ("New Zion") near the Golden Horn. John IX is mentioned. for the first time on May 12, 1157 as a participant in a synod that led to the deposition of the Antiochene Patriarch-Electus Soterichos Panteugenos . John 's successor, Nikephorus II, officiated in 1166. No more detailed information is available about John's death date.

John IX is probably identical to the Jerusalem patriarch Johannes Merkuropulos, who wrote the double vita ( BHG 395) of the hymn poets Johannes of Damascus and Kosmas of Maiuma .

literature

• Peter Plank: Ioannes IX. of Jerusalem (1156/57 - before 1166), patriarch in exile . In: Michael Kohlbacher, Markus Lesinski (eds.): Horizons of Christianity. Festschrift for Friedrich Heyer on his 85th birthday (= Oikonomia 34). Erlangen: Chair for Business u. Theol. of the Christian Ostens 1994, pp. 178-191.
• Foteini Spingou: John IX Patriarch of Jerusalem in exile. A holy man from Mar Saba to St Diomedes / New Zion. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 109, 2016, pp. 179–206. doi : 10.1515 / bz-2016-0010 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Nikolaos	Patriarch of Jerusalem 1157–1166	Nikephorus II.