Benedict I of Jerusalem
Eastern Orthodox Patriarch (1892–1980)
Patriarch Benedict of Jerusalem, also Benediktos I of Jerusalem, born Vasileios Papadopoulos (Ancient Greek: Βασίλειος Παπαδόπουλος, 1892 – December 10, 1980) was the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem from 1957 to 1980.
Biography
Vasileios was born in 1892 in the village of Cesniero (Τσεσνειριω, modern Çeşnigir) in Bursa, of the Metropolis of Nicomedia, in northwestern Anatolia.
He went to Jerusalem in 1906 for his secondary education, graduating from the seminary there in 1914.
On December 3, 1914, he took monastic vows being renamed Benedict, and on the following day he was ordained deacon by Metropolitan Keladion of Ptolemaida.
After a two-month period in the patriarchal secretariat, he served during the war as deacon at Acre and then accompanied Patriarch Damianos during his exile to Damascus (1917–18). He returned for three further years to the patriarchal secretariat in Jerusalem from 1918 to 1921.
From 1921 to 1925 he studied at the University of Athens, in 1925 graduating in law, economics, politics and theology.
In 1927 he represented the Patriarchate of Jerusalem at the First World Conference on Faith and Order at Lausanne.
In February 1929 he was put in charge of the Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre in Athens. In October of the same year he was ordained priest, then advanced to the rank of Archimandrite.
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