Orthodox Church from Mount Sinai
The Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai ( Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai ) and the Archdiocese of Sinai is an Orthodox autocephalous or autonomous church .
She was once dependent on the Church of Jerusalem . In 1575 it gained its autonomy under the Patriarchate of Jerusalem , whose patriarch still consecrates the abbot-archbishop of the Sinai Monastery or St. Catherine Monastery (after the relics of St. Catherine of Alexandria venerated there ). According to the Ecumenical Patriarch , the Church has the unique privilege of being completely free from everyone and everyone , and is autocephalous :
“This independence is described by some Orthodox churches as 'autocephalous', by others as 'autonomous'. It is best to speak of an honorary autonomy, since this 'church' only includes around 100 souls from the St. Catherine's Monastery and small surrounding settlements as well as metochia (small monastery branches) in Cairo, Istanbul, Cyprus and Lebanon. Like his predecessors since the 18th century, the current Archbishop of Sinai, Faran and Reithun, Damianós (Samartsis, since 1973), resides mostly in Cairo. "
The current Archbishop of Sinai, Pharan and Reitho , Damian , has his seat in Cairo .
Archbishops of Sinai
- around 592 Johannes Klimakos
- † August 16, 1336 Germanos
- 1567–1583 Eugenios
- 1583–1592 Anastasios
- 1592-1617 Laurentios
- 1617–1661 Ioasaph ho Rhodios
- 1661 Nektarios
- 1661–1671 Ananias Byzantios
- Sep./Oct. 1671 - February / March 1702 Ioannikios I Peloponnesios († 1703)
- Sep./Oct. 1702 - Feb. 13, 1706 Kosmas Byzantios (16th century - 1736)
- May 7, 1707 - 1720 Athanasios I († 1720)
- Oct. 1720 - 1727 Ioannikios II. († 1727)
- Oct. 1729 - 1747 Nikephoros Marthales († after 1747)
- April 1748 - 1758 Constantios I († 1758)
- Oct. 1759 - Jan. 23, 1790 Kyrillos I (approx. 1700–1790)
- Sept. 1794 - June / July 1797 Dorotheos II. Byzantios († 1797)
- June / July 1802 - January 17, 1859 Constantios II Byzantios (1770-1859)
- Jan. 19, 1859 - Sep. 5 1867 Kyrillos II. († 1882)
- Feb. 2, 1867 - Apr. 21, 1885 Kallistratos (1818–1885)
- Aug 21, 1885 - Apr 20, 1904 Porphyrios I (1838–1909)
- May 7, 1904 - July 14, 1926 Porphyrios II Logothetos (1859–1926)
- 11 Aug 1926 - 24 Nov 1968 Porphyrios III. Paulinou (1878–1968)
- Jan. 4, 1969 - Sept. 11, 1973 Gregorios II. Maniatopoulos (1912–1973)
- Dec 10, 1973 - currently Damianos Samartzes (* 1935)
literature
- Wolfgang Hage : Oriental Christianity. In: The Religions of Mankind . Volume 29/2). Kohlhammer 2007 ( online excerpt ).
- Reinhard Thöle, Eugen Hämmerle, Heinz Ohme and Klaus Schwarz: Approaches to Orthodoxy (= Bensheimer Hefte. ) Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht (1998) ( online excerpt ).
- Adrian Marinescu: The Hierarchs' Catalog of Monastery St. Catherine in Mount Sinai. In: Etudes byzantines et postbyzantines. 4, 2001, pp. 267-289.
Web links
- sinaimonastery.com Website of the Sinai Monastery (Greek / English / Arabic)
- cnewa.us: The Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai (Ronald Roberson, CSP , website of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association )
Individual evidence
- ↑ cnewa.us ( Memento from May 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ quoted from cnewa.org
- ^ Hans-Dieter Döpmann : The Orthodox Churches in Past and Present : 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften (2010), p. 66 ( online excerpt ). - For the number of their relatives, cf. Real Theological Encyclopedia . Mandatory continuation / Ochino - Parapsychology: Vol 25. De Gruyter (1995), p. 449 ( online excerpt )
- ↑ oca.org: The Church of Sinai (website of the Orthodox Church in America )
- ↑ Source: rulers.org (section: Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai) - cf. Wolfgang Hage, p. 424: "Archbishops of Sinai, Pharan and Raithu" ( online )
- ↑ Colophon Codex Vat. Syr. 647