HISTORICAL MARKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ROMANIAN COUNTRIES AND THE JERUSALEM PATRIARCHATE
HISTORICAL MARKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ROMANIAN COUNTRIES AND THE JERUSALEM PATRIARCHATE

Summary/Abstract: Among all of the old Orthodox Patriarchates of the East, the Church of Jerusalem, “the mother of the Churches,” has spent a quite modest material life in comparison with her other sisters, by maintaining herself through the aides received from the outside. The Patriarchs of Jerusalem from the 17th-18th centuries have spent a great deal of their lives and endeavors on the Romanian land. By their zeal, the Jerusalem Patriarchs Theophanous (1608-1644), Paisie (1645-1660), Nectarius (1661-1669), Dositheos (1669-1707), Hrisant Notara (1707-1731), Meletie (1731-1737), Partenie (1737-1766), Efrem (1766-1771), Avramie (1775-1787), and Anthimos (1788-11808) have succeeded in raising their Church to a high prestige. In the Romanian Countries they find shelter, protection and big amounts of money, as well as some other material and spiritual goods with which they could cover the greed of the Turks and stop the Roman-Catholic and Protestant proselytism in the Holy Land. In the Romanian Orthodox space and in the Orthodox Russia, which was in a continuous ascension, the Jerusalem Patriarchs find the protection of Orthodoxy so highly appreciated by the Patriarch Dositheos. The generosity of the Romanian reigning Princes has made the Romanian Countries into the tribune of Orthodoxy wherefrom was spread the written word and the Orthodox faith in the languages of the Orient peoples. We hope that the old friendly relations between the Jerusalem Patriarchs and the Romanian Countries will remain exemplary for the brotherly relations which must exist between the Jerusalem Patriarchate of today and the Romanian Patriarchate.

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