Patriarch of Antioch
b. 11th century · d. 12th century
56th Patriarch of Antioch (Greek line)
John the Oxite or John Oxeites was the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch from c. 1089 until 1100, when he was exiled by Prince Bohemond I of Antioch. He fled to the Byzantine Empire and continued to govern those parts of the patriarchate that were under Byzantine rule. He was a prominent writer of religious texts, and reformer of religious and charitable foundations.