Dositheus of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1189 to 1191

Dositheus of Jerusalem (Greek: Δοσίθεος; died after 1191) was twice Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (for 9 days in February 1189, and again from September/October 1189 until he was restored as Patriarch of Jerusalem on 3 September 1191^[1] and abdicated as Patriarch of Constantinople on 10 September 1191). He was previously Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (1187–1189). He was a close friend of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos.^[2][3]

References

1. Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section
2. Bréhier 1970, p. 384.
3. Grumel 1958, pp. 436, 452.

Bibliography

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• Grumel, Venance (1958). Traité d'études byzantines: La chronologie. Vol. I. Paris: Presses universitaires de France.
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