Engraving of Patriarch Dositheus from his History of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Dositheus II Notaras of Jerusalem (Greek: Δοσίθεος Β΄ Ἱεροσολύμων; Arachova 31 May 1641 – Constantinople 8 February 1707) was the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem between 1669 and 1707[1] and a theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was known for standing against influences of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. He convened the Synod of Jerusalem to counter the Calvinist confessions of Cyril Lucaris.
Dositheus was born in Arachova (today the village of Exochi, Aigialeia, Achaea) on 31 May 1641. Little of his early life is known. He was ordained a deacon in 1652 and elevated to archdeacon of Jerusalem in 1661. In 1666, he was consecrated archbishop of Caesarea Palestinae (now Caesarea Maritima). In 1669, he was elected patriarch of Jerusalem.
He became very involved in the state of the Orthodox Church in the Balkans, Georgia, and southern Russia, particularly after Patriarch Cyril Lucaris of Constantinople set forth in his Confession of Faith (1629) his agreement in the doctrines of predestination and justification by faith alone. In 1672, Patriarch Dositheus convened the Synod of Jerusalem[2] which rejected all the Calvinist doctrines and reformulated Orthodox teachings in a manner that distinguished them from Roman Catholicism as well as Protestantism.
In correspondence with Peter I of Russia, he objected to Peter's reforms that subjected the church to the state, particularly with his abolition of the Patriarchate of Moscow. Dositheus failed in his attempt to get Peter to intercede for the Eastern Orthodox Church in the peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire in 1700.
Dositheus was an "instancabile editore di cose non sue" ("indefatiguable editor of other people's works"),[3] "theologorum Graecorum opera non pauca prelo mandavit ... fuit enim potius compilator et alienorum editor quam novorum auctor" ("he printed not few works of Greek theologicians ... he was a compiler and editor of other people's works, rather than author of original works").[4] The main works published during his life were a three-volumes collection of anti-Latin works: Τόμος καταλλαγῆς [The tome of the Reconciliation], Τόμος ἀγάπης [The tome of Love], Τόμος χαρᾶς [The tome of Joy], all printed in Jaşi, 1692–1705.
Dositheus died in Constantinople on 8 February 1707. In 1715, his twelve-volume History of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem was published.
^Google Books website, Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831 (Appendix: Patriarchs and the Sultans), by Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko
^The Genuine Orthodox Church website, Timeline of the Church, 1453-1821
^Palmieri, Aurelio (1909). Dositeo II Patriarca greco di Gerusalemme (in Italian). Firenze: Libreria Editrice Fiorentina. p. 46.
^Jugie, Martin (1926). Theologia dogmatica Christianorum Orientalium ab Ecclesia Catholica dissidentium (in Latin). Vol. 1. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. p. 516.
and 23 Related for: Dositheus II of Jerusalem information
DositheusII Notaras ofJerusalem (Greek: Δοσίθεος Β΄ Ἱεροσολύμων; Arachova 31 May 1641 – Constantinople 8 February 1707) was the Greek Orthodox Patriarch...
Gnostic Dositheus Magister (fl. 4th century), Roman grammarian and jurist Dositheusof Constantinople (died after 1191), or Dositheus I ofJerusalem, Greek...
DositheusofJerusalem (Greek: Δοσίθεος; died after 1191) was twice Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (for 9 days in February 1189, and again from...
pretending friendship for Dositheus, accepted the second place. Soon, however, he began to hint to the thirty that Dositheus was not as well acquainted...
of Seleucia, Attendee of Council of Ephesus in 431, supporter of Nestorius. Basil of Seleucia fl 452. DositheusII fl 553. Gerontius fl 448. Nonus of...
Samaritan Baptist sects were an offshoot of John the Baptist. One offshoot was in turn headed by Dositheus, Simon Magus, and Menander. It was in this...
when the second siege ofJerusalem took place. Though there is no dispute that Jerusalem fell the second time in the summer month of Tammuz (Jeremiah 52:6)...
Confession ofDositheus (Eastern Orthodox, 1672), Question 3, CRI / Voice, Institute Augustine, Aurelius, De Civitate Dei [On the City of God] (in Latin)...
appended to the end of chapter 10, also referenced as 11:1, which reads: In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said that...
p. 23. ISBN 978-0-88141-301-4. Dennis Bratcher (ed.), The Confession ofDositheus (Eastern Orthodox, 1672), Question 3, CRI / Voice, Institute "Prophetologion"...
Bratcher (ed.), The Confession ofDositheus (Eastern Orthodox, 1672), Question 3, CRI / Voice, Institute See Development of the New Testament canon This...
Dosetai is a Hebraized form of the Greek given name Dositheus meaning "gift of God". It was extremely popular in late classical Judea and among Jewish...
was the Messias prophesied by Moses" (Contra Celsum, VI, ii); He also wrote that Dositheus applied Deuteronomy 18:15 to himself, and compares him with...
The Confession ofDositheus (Eastern Orthodox, 1672), Question 3, CRI / Voice, Institute Cowley, R. W. (1974). "The Biblical Canon Of The Ethiopian Orthodox...
was attended by most of the prominent representatives of the Eastern Orthodox Church, including six Metropolitans besides Dositheus and his retired predecessor...
of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Macedonia under the name DositheusII. At its third synod in 1967, on the bicentennial anniversary of the abolition of the...
«The Synod ofJerusalem and the Confession ofDositheus, A.D. 1672». Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. I-The History of Creeds: §17...
jurisdiction over the whole of the East, freeing the bishops of the capital from responsibility to the sees of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and the Roman Pontiff...
Bratcher (ed.). "The Confession ofDositheus". Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. Decree 18 Catechism of St. Philaret of Moscow Archived 2007-07-03...
Global Information