Summary
Archimandrite whose The Holy Places of Palestine (first published 1928–1933 in Nea Sion) and whose note in the Bertram-Luke Commission report (1921) are, with the Patriarchate’s Refutation (1937), Papastathis’s basic sources for the Greek narrative against the Arab Orthodox claims (‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), PDF p.60).
Details
- His “Character and Composition of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem” appears in Bertram and Luke, Report of the Commission (1921), 284–291, and provides important historical data on the Greek historical narrative (PDF p.60).
- On his account as reported by Papastathis, Jerusalem’s patriarchal status derives from its Christian sanctuaries, so the Church could not have a pastoral character, “but a special character, that of a place of pilgrimage” (PDF p.60).
- The shrines’ owner, in the narrative he articulates, is the “Hellenic race in its totality, having as its agent and representative therein the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre” (PDF p.61).
- Miliaras reports that even the Arab patriarchs the Greek side concedes as possible between 1460–1530 were fluent in Greek (PDF p.62), and attributes the local Orthodox claim to be Arabs to Russian propaganda lighting the fire of phyletism in the Jerusalem church (PDF p.61).
Related pages
‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, Helleno-Orthodoxia