Orestes (Jerusalem)

Orestes was the Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem. Initially a Basilian monk in southern Italy, he was appointed Patriarch of Jerusalem in 986 - probably at the request of his sister, a concubine of the Fatimid caliph al-ʿAzīz . In the year 1000 he was a member of a diplomatic mission to Constantinople to negotiate peace with the Byzantine Empire. There he is lost around 1006, possibly where he died. His brother Arsenios , who had been promoted to Patriarch of Alexandria , also administered the Patriarchate of Jerusalem after Orestes' death until his own death in 1010.

literature

Max Georg Kellner: Orestes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1252-1253. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Amnon Linder: Christian Communities in Jerusalem . In: Joshua Prawer, Haggai Ben-Shammai (ed.): The History of Jerusalem: The Early Muslim Period (638-1099) . NYU Press, New York City 1996, ISBN 0-8147-6639-0 , pp. 127 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Agapios	Patriarch of Jerusalem 986-1006	Theophilus I.

personal data
SURNAME	Orestes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century
DATE OF DEATH	11th century