Simeon II of Jerusalem

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

Patriarch[edit]

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]

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Sources[edit]

  • 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.
Religious titles
Preceded by Patriarch of Jerusalem
1084-1106
Succeeded by
Savvas