Simeon II of Jerusalem

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem

Simeon II or Symeon II was the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem from the 1080s to 1099.

Patriarch

Simeon was appointed the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem in the 1080s.^[1]^[2] Pope Urban II addressed a letter to him, urging him to acknowledge papal primacy to achieve the union of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.^[3] The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Nicholas III of Constantinople, warned Simeon against the accepting the Pope's offer, reminding him to the Orthodox views about Eucharist, primacy and the Nicene Creed.^[3] Simeon wrote a commentary about the use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church in defence of the Orthodox practise.^[4]^[5] After the Artuqids forced him into exile, he settled in Cyprus.^[4]

References

^ Hamilton 2016, p. 5.
^ Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section
^ ^a ^b Charanis 1969, p. 218.
^ ^a ^b Hamilton 2016, p. 6.
^ Runciman 1969, p. 313.

Sources

Charanis, Peter (1969) [1955]. "The Byzantine Empire in the Eleventh Century". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Baldwin, Marshall W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Hundred Years (Second ed.). Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 177–219. ISBN 0-299-04834-9.
Hamilton, Bernard (2016). The Latin Church in the Crusader States: The Secular Church. Routledge. ISBN 9780860780724.
Runciman, Steven (1969) [1955]. "The First Crusade: Antioch to Ascalon". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Baldwin, Marshall W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Hundred Years (Second ed.). Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 308–341. ISBN 0-299-04834-9.