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Patriarch Dositheos of Jerusalem (1641-1707) (James W. Lillie)

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On 23 October, we keep the memory of Saint James, the Brother of Our Lord and first Bishop of Jerusalem. One of his successors in the 17th century was a most remarkable man, Patriarch Dositheos. He was born in the small town of Arahova, in the province of Corinth. At the age of 15, he was ordained deacon and, in the same year (1656), he left home and went to Constantinople. While there he met Patriarch Païsios of Jerusalem, who took him under his wing. Thus began his long association with the city. In 1661, Nektarios, a learned monk from Sinai, was elected to be the new Patriarch of Jerusalem and Dositheos because his arch-deacon just before his 20th birthday. ...

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