Keladion

Summary

Bishop and Locum Tenens of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Niqula Khoury’s candidate for the patriarchal see against Timotheos in the 1930s election (‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), PDF p.64-65).

During the electoral process Khoury supported Timotheos’ competitor Keladion; because of this paradoxical alignment of Khoury with the camp of Athens’ protégé, the Greek consulate in Jerusalem paid Khoury five pounds in 1931 and the same amount in 1932 (Greek Foreign Ministry archive, as cited by Papastathis, PDF p.64).
As Locum Tenens, Keladion asked Khoury to prepare a small religious book known as Matari; when Khoury completed it, Timotheos had already been elected and demanded it be printed under his order, which Khoury refused (PDF p.65).
In the 1930s Khoury supported the opposite camp to his earlier alignment, became friends with Keladion and promoted him as a candidate for the patriarchal See (PDF p.66).
The Memoirs §26 names him Archbishop Keladion, Metropolitan of Acre, elected Patriarchal locum tenens by the Synod after Damianos’s death (which the Memoirs date to spring 1932); Khoury completed copying and revising the Euchologion during his office — Keladion, ‘as proficient in Arabic as a native speaker’, asked for the revision against the original Greek and congratulated Khoury warmly on the finished book (‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), PDF p.119, p.121-122).

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