Cyril II of Jerusalem, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1792
Place of Birth: Samos, North Aegean Region, Greece
Date of Death: 18-Aug-1877
Profession: priest, minister
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Cyril II of Jerusalem
- Cyril II of Jerusalem (original name Konstantinos Kritikos) was born in 1792 in the island of Samos.
- In 1816 he was ordained a deacon, then a presbyter, was abbot of the monastery.
- In 1835 he became Archbishop of Sebasteia and in 1838 of Lydia.
- In 1845 he was elected as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem under the name Cyril II (1846–1872) by the Hagiotaphites (Confraternity of the Holy Sepulchre) and remains to 1872.
- On 28 February 1870, Sultan Abdülaziz I signed a firman which created the Bulgarian Exarchate subject?d to the Ecumenical Patriarchate but yet as a representative of the Bulgarian millet in the Ottoman Empire.
- Cyril II participated in the Council in Constantinople, chaired by Ecumenical Patriarch Anthimus VI, in September 1872, wherein the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch also participated and which on 18/30 September declared the Bulgarian Exarchate as schismatic and its adherents excommunicated.
- Cyril opposed the declaration of schism and declined to sign the Council's decisions.
- On September 14, 1872 Cyril II left the council in Constantinople by steamer to Jaffa and Jerusalem.
- Dethroned from the patriarchal throne on 12 December 1872, in his absence.
- Cyril II had many supporters - especially among Christian Arabs, but also among high-ranking dignitaries, many of whom suffer because of it.
- Cyril's successor on the patriarchal throne, Procopius, remained little more than two years.
- On 26 February 1875, mainly under the pressure of the Arab population and Orthodox clergy, he was deposed.
- Arab notables from Jerusalem wanted former patriarch Cyril II to be a candidate for the vacant throne, but in a pastoral message, published in the newspapers, he declined this invitation on grounds of advanced age.
- He died on 18 August 1877.
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