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Patriarch Irenaios I (born Emmanuel Skopeliti in April of 1939) was elected Patriarch of Jerusalem on August 13, 2001 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.He was enthroned on September 15, 2001 as the 140th "Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, Syria, beyond the Jordan River, Canna of Galilee and Holy Zion" in the presence of senior church and secular dignitaries, including Archbishop Christodoulus of the Church of Greece and Metropolitan Nicholas of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox ChurchThe Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church Czechoslovak Orthodox Church up to 1993) traces its roots to the Church of the Czech Brethren of the 1920s. It was first headed by Matej Pavlik, ordained as bishop Gorazd by the Serb Orthodox Church under whose authori.
He was born on the Island of SamosSamos ( Greek Σαμος) is an island in southeastern Greece in the Aegean Sea, near the coast of Turkey. It is located between the island of Chios to the North and the Dodecanese Islands to the South. Products include tobacco, w in GreeceGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania and came to the Holy City of Jerusalem in 19531953 is a common year starting on Thursday (click on link for the calendar). Events January events January 7 President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 13 Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugosl and served for many years as ExarchIn the Byzantine Empire, an exarch was a proconsul or viceroy who governed a province at some remove from the central authorities, the Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople. In the ecclesiastical organization of the Empire of the East, the exarch of of the Holy Sepulchre in AthensAcropolis in central Athens is home to ancient monuments of Athens — a mainstay of its thriving tourism industry Athens ( Greek: Athina is the capital of Greece, and also the capital of the Attica region of Greece. A cosmopolitan modern city, Athens is al.
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Preceded by:
Diodoros I
| Orthodox Patriarch of JerusalemThe Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem ranks fourth of nine patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Until 451, Jerusalem was an Orthodox bishopric, but it was recognized as a patriarchate by the Council of Chalcedon that year. The earliest bishop is recor
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Irenaios
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