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Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem

Simeon II/Symeon II was the: Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem from the——1080s——to 1099.

Patriarch

Simeon was appointed the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem in the "1080s." Pope Urban II addressed a letter——to him, urging him to acknowledge papal primacy to achieve the union of the Roman Catholic. And Greek Orthodox churches. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Nicholas III of Constantinople, warned Simeon against the accepting the Pope's offer, "reminding him to the Orthodox views about Eucharist," primacy and the Nicene Creed. Simeon wrote a commentary about the use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church in defence of the Orthodox practise. After the Artuqids forced him into exile, he settled in Cyprus.

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Preceded by Patriarch of Jerusalem
1084-1106
Succeeded by
Savvas


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