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	Patriarch Irenaios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irenaios Skopelitis (born 1939) was the primate of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem from 2001 to 2005.
		Born Emmanouil Skopelitis in April of 1939, Irenaios was elected patriarch on August 13, 2001 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
		Irenaios ceased to be Patriarch at that point as far as the local church is concerned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patriarch_Irenaios_of_Jerusalem (474 words)

	Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem is the head bishop of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, ranking fourth of nine patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
		His Beatitude Patriarch Irenaios, elected in 2001, was deposed in the aftermath of a scandal involving the sale of church land in East Jerusalem to Israeli developers; the move enraged many Orthodox Palestinians, since the land was in an area that most Palestinians hope will someday become part of a Palestinian state.
		On August 22, 2005, the Holy Synod of the Church of Jerusalem unanimously elected Theophilus, the former Archbishop of Tabor, as the 141st Patriarch of Jerusalem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem (445 words)

	Irenaios’s ouster confirmed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Irenaios, who has denied claims he was involved in the covert handover of Church land in Jerusalem to Jewish investors, was quoted as saying he remained patriarch of Jerusalem, only to be contradicted by Vartholomaios.
		Irenaios has been accused of involvement in the politically explosive, covert handover of Church land in the Arab sector of Jerusalem to Jewish investors.
		Although Irenaios insists he is innocent - calling on God to cut off his hands should he be lying - rebel bishops raised the necessary majority in the Patriarchate's ruling body, the Holy Synod, to depose him early this month.
	www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /174/Irenaios.htm (459 words)

	Theophilus III (Giannopoulos) of Jerusalem - OrthodoxWiki
		Formerly the Archbishop of Tabor, Theophilus was elected unanimously by Jerusalem's Holy Synod to succeed the deposed Irenaios I.
		Before becoming patriarch, Theophilus served for a short time as the Archbishop of Tabor, consecrated to the episcopacy by Irenaios in February of 2005.
		Patriarch Theophilus, a native of the Peloponnese in Greece, is a cousin of former US CIA director George Tenet and also has met with American Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Theophilus_III_(Yiannopoulos)_of_Jerusalem (285 words)

	Dissidents’ rejection of Irenaios adds to patriarch’s pressures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		JERUSALEM - In the latest twist to a tempestuous tenure as head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, Patriarch Irenaios was declared persona non grata yesterday by Church elders amid a controversial land-sale scandal that has sparked Arab fury.
		Irenaios, who was elected patriarch in 2001, has persistently ducked pressure to step down despite a series of scandals, the most explosive of which involved the alleged secret sale of Church land in Jerusalem to a group of Jewish investors.
		Nearly 30 years later, he was enthroned as the 140th Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem in September 2001.
	www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /171/Dissidents.htm (416 words)

	Irenaios I (Skopelitis) of Jerusalem - OrthodoxWiki
		Irenaios (Skopelitis) is the former patriarch of the Church of Jerusalem (2001-2005).
		Born Emmanouil Skopelitis in April 1939, Irenaios was elected primate of the Church of Jerusalem on August 13, 2001 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
		He was born on the Island of Samos in Greece and came to Jerusalem in 1953 and served for many years as exarch of the Holy Sepulchre in Athens.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Irenaios_I_(Skopelitis)_of_Jerusalem (273 words)

	News
		patriarch of the Ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa.
		The new Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodoros II, was born in Heraclion, Crete in 1954.
		Patriarch Theodoros encompasses all those talents and attributes which are necessary for the continuation of the bold and well-known tasks of his predecessor Petros of Blessed Memory in Africa, while he also bears the hopes, the expectations and the visions of the Hellenes in Egypt”, said Archbishop Christodoulos.
	www.greekorthodox-alexandria.org /News/2004/october.htm (1846 words)

	Bartholomew's notes on religion
		Under the previous patriarch [Diodoros I], Israel bought and leased significant areas of land from the Greek Orthodox Church, including affluent neighborhoods of the city and the land which the official residences of the Israeli President and Prime Minister stand on.
		This appears to have influenced the actions of the Patriarch, who was seen by Israel until recently as a supporter of the PLO and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
		In the ensuing media storm, the Patriarch condemned this sentiment and announced that Hanna was not an official spokesman for the church (a position that Hanna claims was his; some reports describe him as having been “fired”).
	blogs.salon.com /0003494/2005/05/06.html (1396 words)

	Christdot :: Christ. Period. :: Woe for the Orthodox Church
		The Church of Greece and Patriarchate of Jeruselem are embroiled in a scandal involving sales (actually very long term leases) of church property in Jerusalem to Jewish investors (which has the effect of reducing the Christian presence in the city).
		Vavilis claimed that Irenaios had offered him $400,000 if he helped him win the 2001 election for Jerusalem Patriarch, during a meeting which was also attended by the head of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Christodoulos, according to an interview published in Proto Thema weekly....
		The patriarch and the 17 members of the Holy Synod of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, all of whom are natives of Greece, manage vast holdings of lands and buildings all over the country.
	christdot.org /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5826 (1384 words)

	Directions to Orthodoxy - Irenaios defies Orthodox leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Patriarch Irineos I is accused of authorising the sale of land in the old city of Jerusalem to Jewish investors.
		Patriarch Irineos stands accused of authorising the sale of some of the most sensitive property in Jerusalem - three buildings in the main square near the Jaffa Gate, that have for generations been lived in by Palestinians.
		Patriarch Irineos, a controversial character for many years who was not recognised as the patriarch by Israel, has already been stripped of his post by a synod in Jerusalem.
	directionstoorthodoxy.org /mod/news/view.php?article_id=4663 (591 words)

	Costas Iordanidis: The Stubborn Patriarch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The crisis bedevilling the Jerusalem Patriarchate is not just a question of ethics nor one of mismanagement of assets.
		For centuries, the Jerusalem patriarchs have been of Greek origin and the Greek Orthodox nature of the patriarchate was protected by a 1958 Jordanian law.
		Irenaios may have been declared persona non grata by his Holy Synod, but this does not solve the problem even if he does resign.
	www.palestine-pmc.com /details.asp?cat=4&id=1857 (576 words)

	OrthodoxyToday.org Blog » Irenaios’ ouster confirmed
		The role of the Patriarch, Irineos I, is murky.
		If Patriarch Irineos is stunningly stubborn he may cling on as signaled with a hand gesture when he left the extraordinary, Synodical meeting, just as he has defied the verdict of his bishops in Jerusalem.
		“The patriarchate of Antioch abstained.” Now, the Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius IV is in the states right now, but I am told that if his representative abstained, it could be significant, since there is apparently bad blood recently between Antioch and Jerusalem, due to Jerusalem’s ill-treatment of the Arab Christians it has pastoral care for.
	www.orthodoxytoday.org /blog?p=953 (2253 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Greek bishop is accused of hiring hit-man to kill Patriarch
		A Greek Orthodox bishop is to be charged under anti-terrorism laws in Athens for allegedly plotting to murder the head of the ancient Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
		The secretive Jerusalem Patriarchate, which administers about 100,000 Christian Arabs, is believed to be one of the richest churches in the world.
		Patriarch Irenaios was told about the alleged plot in February by Zouzer al-Manasrah, the Palestinian Authority's intelligence chief, after al-Mufti was arrested and held at Ramallah police station on an unrelated theft charge.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/18/wbish18.xml (724 words)

	Patriarch Theofilos III of Jerusalem
		His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III was officially enthroned as Patriarch of Jerusalem and All Palestine on November 22, 2005.
		Other Patriarchs of Jerusalem bearing the same name are Theofilos I, Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1012 to 1020, and Theofilos II, Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1417 to 1424.
		Patriarch Theophilos takes the leadership of the Church of Jerusalem at a very difficult time in her history.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Religion/PatriarchTheofilosIIIOfJerusalem.html (606 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Tensions over new Mid-East patriarch
		The Israeli Government is refusing to recognise the new head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, Patriarch Irenaios.
		The Israelis fear this may affect the patriarch's decisions on the vital issue of land.
		One of the new patriarch's first moves has been to check the use of this land and all other church land, something which alarms Israel.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1758731.stm (441 words)

	Orthodox Church of Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, properly called the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, is regarded by Orthodox Christians as the mother church of all of Christendom, because it was in Jerusalem that the Church was established on the day of Pentecost with the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus Christ.
		In 2005, a crisis of the patriarchy occurred when Patriarch Irenaios was stripped of his authority as patriarch by the Holy Synod of Jerusalem.
		On August 22, 2005, the Holy Synod of the Church of Jerusalem unanimously elected Theofilos III, the former Archbishop of Tabor, as the 141st Patriarch of Jerusalem.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Orthodox_Church_of_Jerusalem (387 words)

	Worship of the Early Christian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Irenaios of Lyons, writing in the latter half of the second century, tells us that Clement was the third bishop of Rome and that he personally knew Ss.
		From the writings of the early Church Fathers such as St. Clement, St. Ignatios, St. Justin, and St. Irenaios, it is evident that the governing structure of the early Church was directly related to Her nature as a Eucharistic community.
		First of all, St. Irenaios states, "But our opinion is in conformity with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist confirms our opinion." In other words, his theology is in accord with the worship and life of the Church, and the worship and life of the Church confirm the truthfulness of His theology.
	www.holytrinity.ok.goarch.org /Orthodoxy/worship_early_church_ext.htm (6404 words)

	News and events
		"The embattled Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem received the cold shoulder yesterday from Jordanian authorities, who gave him a three-day deadline to defend himself against claims he secretly sold land in the Arab sector of the holy city to Jewish settlers.
		Irenaios is already under intense pressure from Palestinian officials, Arab members of his flock, as well as senior churchmen to resign over the alleged sale, which was reported by an Israeli newspaper this month but has been staunchly denied by the patriarch.
		Irenaios was snubbed in Amman yesterday by King Abdallah, with whom he had been scheduled to meet.
	www.mpc.org.mk /English/news2.asp?id=713 (367 words)

	Greek News - Irineos Officially Lost His Title
		Constantinople.- Greek Foreign Ministry has stripped Jerusalem Patriarch Irenaios of his diplomatic passport and issued him a six-month passport that refers to him as the former patriarch of Jerusalem, ministry spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos said on Friday.
		World Orthodox leaders voted Tuesday to stop recognizing the patriarch of Jerusalem, Irineos I. Representatives of 12 main Orthodox churches cast their votes during a rare "pan-Orthodox" synod, presided over by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Istanbul-based spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians.
		Speaking from Jerusalem, Father Dimitrios, the secretary for the Holy Synod in Jerusalem, said the church in the Holy Land will start working to elect a "locum tenens" - someone to execute the duties of the patriarch until a new one is installed.
	www.greeknewsonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3309 (654 words)

	The Shepherd 10, April 2005
		THE PATRIARCH of Moscow, Patriarch Aleksii II, has addressed a long and excellent letter to the His All-Holiness Œcumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, regarding the situation of the Archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox parishes in Western Europe, the Paris Exarchate and, more generally, the broader situation of the Orthodox diaspora.
		Apparently, Patriarch Bartholomeos had expressed the opinion that “Western Europe and all the lands recently discovered in America and Australia belong to the area of responsibility of the Œcumenical Patriarchate.” His brother in Moscow points out with sound reasoning that this claim seems “completely fictitious and is without canonical foundation.”
		Oddly enough, for a long period after his election Patriarch Irenaios was not recognised by the Israeli government, because he was considered to be too sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
	www.saintedwardbrotherhood.org /0405/shepherd10.html (764 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Jerusalem clergy dump patriarch
		In a two-page letter to a news agency in Jerusalem, church leaders said they had decided to "strip Irineos I of his duties as patriarch in the Holy Land, no longer work with him and considered him persona non grata in the Church".
		The patriarch has said he never agreed to the sale but there is speculation that one of his deputies may have signed the deal on his behalf.
		Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 and annexed it in 1981, but its claim to the area is not recognised internationally.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4517223.stm (350 words)

	Directions to Orthodoxy - Irenaios is left with no place to go (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		AMMAN (AP) - Jordan confirmed on Saturday that it has withdrawn the diplomatic passport issued to Irenaios, the embattled former Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, but denied reports that it had revoked the churchman’s nationality.
		For the past three months, Irenaios has been embroiled in a controversy over the long-term leasing of choice Church property to Jews trying to expand their presence in disputed Jerusalem.
		Irenaios has repeatedly declared he would not step aside, even though the controversy has prevented him from wielding the powers of a patriarch.
	directionstoorthodoxy.org /mod/news/view.php?article_id=4925 (423 words)

	NCC 2003 General Assembly: Reissue of Resolution Recognizing the Patriarch of Jerusalem
		-- His Beatitude Irenaios, the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, was canonically elected on August 13, 2001 -- but more than two years later, his election has yet to be recognized by the Government of Israel.
		WHEREAS the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, meeting in November 2002, expressed serious concern about the ongoing failure of the Government of Israel to recognize the canonical election in August 2001 of His Beatitude Irenaios, the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
		WHEREAS the venerable and ancient Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem is unable to function as a legal entity in Israel, and is thus unable to oversee properly the Holy Shrines and property under its jurisdiction and to operate the schools, hospitals and other institutions through which it serves Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land.
	www.ncccusa.org /news/03patriarchate.html (315 words)

	seeurope.net :: View Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One day after unsuccessfully summoning the scandal-mired patriarch of Jerusalem to bow to his own bishops’ wishes and resign, Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios yesterday decided to convene a rare meeting of all heads of Orthodox churches on Monday in Istanbul, in a bid to solve the impasse.
		Patriarch Irenaios, who denies accusations he was involved in the covert handover of Church land in the Arab sector of Jerusalem to Jewish investors, has so far resisted all calls to resign — even after the Patriarchate’s ruling body, the Holy Synod, voted earlier this month to depose him.
		A statement from the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate yesterday said the heads of all “sister Orthodox churches,” each accompanied by two senior aides, would attend the meeting “to confer and reach decisions” regarding the increasingly embarrassing state of affairs in Jerusalem.
	www.seeurope.net /en/Story.php?StoryID=55436&LangID=1 (452 words)

	Ouster of Orthodox patriarch by rebel clergy in Holy Land creates crisis
		JERUSALEM (AP) - The fate of beleaguered Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos I was shrouded in confusion Saturday, with rebel clergy saying he has been fired but supporters insisting he is still in charge.
		Jerusalem, Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch all have the same problems: enclaves surviving in areas of Muslim dominance.
		The Patriarch of Jerusalem actually has a fairly large flock of faithful in the geographical area of his jurisdiction, which is more than can be said for the EP in Turkey...
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/1398879/posts (2156 words)

	Holy Fire
		It is also claimed that in 1579, the Armenian patriarch prayed day and night in order to obtain the holy fire, but the lightning miraculously struck a column near the entrance and lit a candle held by the Orthodox patriarch standing nearby.
		In 2005, in the midst of a host of scandals, which would ultimately bring his ouster from the throne, Jerusalem Patriarch Irenaios shocked the public when he berated those who were skeptical concerning the "Holy Fire" miracle as "vermin".
		The Patriarch kneels in front of the stone on which Christ was laid after his death and says certain prayers, at which point the miracle occurs.
	www.pravmir.com /article_94.html (2786 words)

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