Joseph II of Jerusalem
patriarch of Jerusalem
75th Bishop of Jerusalem (Patriarch)
Offices
Joseph II of Jerusalem was the patriarch of the Church of Jerusalem from 981 to 983. Little is known of his life. It was during his episcopate that Sadaqah Ibn Bishr, the Patriarchal syncellus, was able to complete the renovation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre that had been damaged by fire during riots in 966.
Related people
- Orestes of Jerusalem preceded · inferred
Places
- Cairo death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus III, col. 101 sqq. — De Patriarchatu Hierosolymitano