John the Merciful
Patriarch of Alexandria
b. 550s · d. 7th century
48th Greek (Melkite) Patriarch of Alexandria
Offices
John V Eleemon, also known as John the Almsgiver, John the Almoner, John the Compassionate, or John the Merciful, was the Chalcedonian Patriarch of Alexandria from 606 to 616. He was born in Amathus around 560. Originally appointed by Emperor Heraclius, at the end of his life he was obliged to flee back to Cyprus, where he died around 620.
Related people
- Patriarch Theodore I of Alexandria succeeded · inferred
- Patriarch George I of Alexandria preceded · inferred
Commemorated
Places
- Amathus death
- St. Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava burial
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus II, col. 329 sqq. — Patriarchatus Alexandrinus