Patriarch Abraham ( Greek Πατριάρχης Αβράμιος ; d. November 1, 1787 , Constantinople ) - bishop of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem , Patriarch of Jerusalem and all of Palestine .
Biography
In June 1775 he was elected Patriarch of Jerusalem.
The first years of his reign fell on the period of unrest and riots in the Middle East , from which the Christian population suffered. However, by the end of the 1770s, the political situation in Palestine had stabilized; the relationship of Christian denominations was not clouded by conflicts.
Patriarch Abraham rarely left Constantinople , leaving only in the Danube principalities for financial help.
His viceroy in Palestine was Metropolitan Neofit of Nazareth, under whose leadership a new courtyard for pilgrims was built in Jaffa , the wall of the Bethlehem temple was strengthened, a number of churches and monasteries were rebuilt, the courtyard of the Jerusalem Church in Smyrna was burnt to the ground, a new courtyard was opened in Bucharest, it was acquired for Bucharest a large number of land plots.
Before his death, he appointed Metropolitan of Caesarea Procopius as his successor.
He died on November 1, 1787 .
Links
- Abraham // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2000. - T. I. - S. 166. - 752 p. - 40,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-006-4 .
- SPACIOUS HISTORY OF THE JERUSALEM CHURCH. PERIOD III. PART 3 (1757-1910)