Sophronius of Jerusalem
Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638
b. 560 · d. 11 Mar 638
54th Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch) · 634–638
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- Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch) № 54 · 634 – 638
Sophronius, called Sophronius the Sophist, was the Greek Patriarch of the city known as Aelia Capitolina and then Jerusalem from 634 until his death. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Before rising to the primacy of the See, he was a monk and theologian who was the chief protagonist for orthodox teaching in the doctrinal controversy on the essential nature of Jesus and his volitional acts. He is also renowned for the negotiation of the surrender of Aelia Capitolina to the Rashid caliph Umar in 637/8.
Related people
- Stephen of Alexandria disciple of · traditional
- John Moschus disciple of · traditional
- Modestos of Jerusalem succeeded · traditional
- Maximus the Confessor teacher of · traditional
- Anastasius II of Jerusalem preceded · inferred
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Recorded as a historical figure.
- Chronographia 1 claim — Fall of Jerusalem to the caliphate
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus III, col. 101 sqq. — De Patriarchatu Hierosolymitano