Previous Patriarchs

   He endured a martyr’s death at the hands of his adversaries. His is honoured as a Saint of the Church.

      A learned author of many homilies and theological and treatises. He convoked a Synod in Alexandria against the disputes of the Samaritans and the Judeans. He is honoured as a Saint of the Church.

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     He was Archbishop of Alexandria and Commander of the city b y order of the Emperor Justinian. His political peculiarity provoked a reaction by the fullness of the Church. He participated in the 5^th Ecumenical Council.

        He signed the Resolutions of the Local Synod of Constantinople.

    He was judicially condemned, and was therefore deposed by the Synod of Gaza. He was reinstated to the Archbishop’s throne through Empirical mediation .

      He was exiled to Sardinia following a Government Order, after a short tenure as Patriarch.

 He was elected Archbishop but was rejected by the people and the monks as a Monophysite.

    Emulating his predecessors he essentially continued the fight against the 4^th Ecumenical Council. He sent missionaries to Arabia .

       He maintained the attitude of his predecessors Petros III and Athanasius II towards the Monophysites and the Orthodox.

     He sought the unity of the two Churches, working particularly on behalf of Monphyticism.

      He followed in the footsteps of his predecessors Petros III and Athansius II.

      He maintained the same attitudes as his predecessor Petros III, towards the Monophysites and the Orthodox.

     He was elected Archbishop with the support of the Emperor Zenon, promising that he would remain firm in the Orthodox faith, for conciliation of ecclesiastical quarrels. However, he proved to be untrustworthy both towards the Monophysites of Egypt by condemning the 4^th Ecumenical Council, as well as to the Eastern Orthodox by supporting it.

    Presbyter John was sent to Constantinople by the Christians of Alexandria, in order to ask the Emperor Zenon to allow them in the future the right to elect their Archbishop. The Emperor accepted this with the condition that he would not accept to become Bishop, in order that the people could elect the most suitable person without force. Returning to Alexandria , John reneged on his promise and, through the intervention of  the Empirical Court ,  was elected Archbishop, but was banished by Pergamius, the Governor of Egypt, as a perjurer.

    He was distanced from and returned to the Archbishop’s Throne of Alexandria twice, during the intense ecclesiastical clashes between the Orthodox and the Monophysites. He remained true to Orthodox teachings.

      He was elected Archbishop of Alexandria by some of the people, while the throne was already occupied by Proterius. Following the murder of Proterius (457) he remained as the only Archbishop until he was exiled by Emperor Leon I.

 Following the above-mentioned events, the division between the Orthodox –Copts reached its climax and they finally broke away from the Church forming their own Church under their own Patriarch.

 He was made Archbishop of Alexandria through the intervention of Florus, Commander of the city, provoking the displeasure of some people, who, lead astray by the Monophysites, elected as Archbishop of Alexandria Timotheos Ailuros, who was later exiled by Emperor Leon I. Bloody encounters ensued between the followers of the two Hierarchs, during which Proterius was murdered. He is honoured as a Saint of the Church.

  He embraced the erroneous beliefs of the heresiarch Eutyches and became a defender of  Monophycitism . He was deposed by the 4^th Ecumenical Council.

     He was a nephew of Archbishop Theophilus. He fought against the heresies particularly against the erroneous beliefs of those of Nestor. He reinstated the name of St John Chrysostom, which had been erased by his predecessor Theophilos, into the Diptychs of the Church of Alexandria . He is honoured as a Saint of the Church.