Archives of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Reference | JM-AEPI/VI/Δ/8 |
Title | Codex of contributions collected by the hieromonk, protosyncellus and archimandrite Zacharias for the provinces of Cesarea and Iconium. On sheet 3n and on the upper part of the page, a nice colored icon representing Christ in majesty with Virgin Mary on His right, Saint John the Forerunner on His left and behind Him on both sides two angels in prayer. The following text constitutes the prologue of the codex: Laborious workers and commissioners of the Holy and Life-giving Sepulchre of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, I make known to you in this book that I, the least of hieromonks and unworthy of your Brotherhood protosyncellus and archimandrite Zacharias, having spent as a traveler twenty-one years, i.e. from January 1st 1811 to May 1st 1832, in the two provinces of the Saint of Cesarea and the Saint of Iconium, after writing during these years all the names of the Christians that were helpful and charitable to the most sacred monastery of the Holy and Life-giving Sepulchre and upon their demise offe |
Dates | 1840-1851 |
Dates Start | 1840 |
Dates End | 1851 |
Level of description | File |
Extend and medium | 1 file, 327 Χ 225 mm, 101 sh. |
Repository | Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI) |
Name of creator(s) | Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI) |
Description | Sizes and sheets refer to all the years from 1832 to 1851. Binding with cardboard lined with black leather and decorated with small rosettes forming a Cross. On the spine survives a piece of stuck label with the words: (Codex) containing (names) of merciful Christians of the protosyncelli in Cesarea and Mytilini... |
Language of material | Greek |
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 |