Archives of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Reference | JM-AEPI/VI/Γ/15/1886/148 |
Title | Collective petition of the inhabitans of Ramallah. |
Dates | 1886-02-27 |
Dates Start | 1886-02-27 |
Dates End | 1886-02-27 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI) |
Name of creator(s) | Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI) |
Description | Many complaints against Apu Sukri (Άπου Σούκρι), who tells them: "the Bishop assigns to me your own petitions against me, so that I can ridicule all of you"; he has his own party, he charges them the tenth tax, he deducts from the share of his own people, he removes people from the Igoumenion, he imposes to the Abbot whom to support and whom not to support, he favors some school gilrs against others and he orders to make clothes for them, while for others he doesn't, he claims that he is the absolute Patriarchal Commissioner, he gets drunk with the teachers, etc., etc. This is why, they ask to be liberated from this man. |
Language of material | Greek |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/collective-petition-of-the-inhabitans-of-ramallah-6?sf_culture=en |
Reference | JM-AEPI |
Title | Archives of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem |
Covering dates | 1817 - Circa 1955 |
Dates Start | 1817 |
Dates End | 1955 |
Level of description | Fonds |
Extend and medium | 2297 and 2548 selected and described files and items |
Repository | Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI) |
Name of creator(s) | Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI) |
Archival history | Despite its long administrative tradition, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem created a distinct archival service only in the early twentieth century and placed it under the authority of the archigrammateas. The Historical and Paleographic Archive of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation and its director, Agamemnon Tselikas accomplished the classification of the archives from 1988 to 1991 and their catalog was published in Greek in 1992. |
Description | Most of the material is hosted in a two-story building within the patriarchal complex and contains documents from the tenth to the late twentieth centuries. The content of the archives was continually expanded through the post-World War II period. Greek, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish |
Accruals | The fonds is not closed. |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI) |
Finding aids | Agamemnon Tselikas, Katagrafi tou archeiou tou Patriarcheiou Ierosolymon [Register of the Jerusalem patriarchate archives], Athens: Deltio tou Istorikou kai Paleografikou Archeiou tou Morfotikou Idrymatos tis Ethnikis Trapezas tis Ellados, 1992 |
Publication notes | Angelos Dalachanis and Agamemnon Tselikas "The Brotherhood, the City and the Land: Patriarchal Archives and Scales of Analysis of Greek Orthodox Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods", in Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire (eds), Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City, Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018, 118-136 Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis, “The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem: Between Hellenism and Arabism”, Middle Eastern Studies 30, no. 4 (1994), 916-929. Sotirios Roussos, "The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and Community of Jerusalem: Church, State and Identity", in ed. Anthony O’Mahony (ed.), The Christian Communities in Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion and Politics, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003, 38-56 |
Rules or conventions | International standard for archival description, General, etc. |
Date of the catalogue | 1992; Februar 2017; Entry prepared on september 2018 |
Archivist's notes | Author(s): Agamemnon Tselikas |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/archives-of-the-greek-orthodox-patriarchate-of-jerusalem?sf_culture=en |