Jeremias III of Constantinople

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Jeremias III
Church of Constantinople
In office23 March 1716 – 19 Nov 1726
15 Sept 1732 – March 1733
Predecessor
Successor
Personal details
Bornc. 1650/1660
Died1735
Caesarea in Cappadocia

Jeremias III (Greek: Ἰερεμίας; c. 1650/1660 – 1735) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople twice, in 1716–1726 and 1732–1733.

Life

Jeremias was born between 1650 and 1660

Caesarea in Cappadocia. When his Metropolitan Cyprianus became Patriarch of Constantinople in 1707, he succeeded him as Metropolitan of Cesarea.[2]

Jeremiah was elected Patriarch for the first time on 23 March 1716. His first patriarchate was long compared to the usual length of his office in that centuries, and Jeremias succeeded to cope with two attempts of deposition, probably sprung from his support to the

Russian Tsardom: on 1 January 1718 the Metropolitan of Pruoza, Cyril, was elected Patriarch in his place, but Jeremias returned on the throne next 17 January, and in 1720 he was arrested and his rival, the previous Patriarch Cyril IV, reigned from 10 to 22 January, when Jeremias was re-installed.[3] Jeremiah was finally deposed on 19 November 1726 after his clashes with the ruler of Moldova Grigore II Ghica concerning his refusal to grant divorce to Ghica's brother, and he was exiled to Mount Sinai
.

In 1732, Jeremiah returned from exile and on 15 September 1732 he was appointed Patriarch for the second time,

Great Lavra Monastery on Mount Athos
, where he died in 1735.

Patriarchate

Asked by the Tsar

Protestants, on 31 August 1718 Jeremias confirmed that, as his predecessor Cyprianus stated about the Catholic baptism, it is not necessary to re-baptize the Protestants who joined the Orthodox Church, the Chrismation being enough.[2]

In 1720, he got permission from the

Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, destroyed by fire some years before, at the headquarters of the Patriarchate at the Fener.[4] He also reorganized the Monastery of the Transfiguration on the Princes' Islands
, which was enriched with a collection of valuable pictures that had been donated by Peter I of Russia.

In December 1723, Jeremias approved the suppression, made in 1721 by Peter I of Russia, of

Patriarchate of Moscow and its replacement with the Most Holy Synod.[2]

After that the

Eastern Orthodox Church of Antioch
.

Jeremias imposed austerity at the expense of the Patriarchate, thus managing to reduce debt and improve its financial situation.

Notes

  1. ^ Γεννάδιος Ηλιουπόλεως, «Ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Ιερεμίας ο Γ'», Ορθοδοξία 25 (1950), σελ. 148 (in Greek)
  2. ^
    ISBN 2-7063-0210-0
    .
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4344-5876-6
    .
  4. ISBN 960-87087-5-3
    , σελ. 23 (in Greek)
  5. ^ Korolevsky, Cyril (1924). "Antioche". Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques. Vol. 3. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. p. 647.
  6. ^ on September 27 according to the Julian calendar
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