Archimandrite Fotios Ioakeim, The archbishops of Salamis-Constantia of Cyprus (4th-10th century). A. Life, holiness, works. , 2023
This voluminous work (1024 pages) is the author's doctoral thesis, the fruit of many years of stu... more This voluminous work (1024 pages) is the author's doctoral thesis, the fruit of many years of study and research of the relevant sources, which he submitted in 2022 to the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and was approved with an excellent unanimous vote. The publication includes a Greeting by His Beatitude Archbishop of Cyprus Mr. Georgios I and a Foreword by His Eminence Metropolitan Morphou Mr. Neophytos, followed by a Foreword and an extensive scientific Introduction by the author.
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Our research was not limited strictly to existing relevant scholarly works but was expanded to include new material, both published and unpublished. Following a detailed and documented Introduction, the results of our research are presented in three catalogues: first, the relevant printed editions, followed by the related manuscript material, and finally a prosopographical catalogue.
From this overall research, 21 relevant printed editions and 93 manuscripts have emerged, along with 4 additional manuscripts for which only brief references exist, possibly also belonging to the period under examination. It is noteworthy that some of these manuscripts are presented here for the first time.
The prosopographical catalogue includes 56 individuals who were engaged in the hagiographical and liturgical production during the period under examination. These include bishops, clergy, monks, as well as laypeople.
Concentrating on these vitae or synaxaria, owing to the lack of data concerning the lives of the majority of local saints, a number of anonymous Cypriot clergy or monks undertook the task to create the aforesaid synaxaria, actually by compilation of data from synaxaria of other -usually not so common- saints, together with local traditions. It's to be underlined that in most of these compiled forged synaxaria, the so called "alamanic theory" consists the main "hagiological" backround.
Following our research, the following cases of local saints have been detected with a forged synaxarion: 1. Anastasius, a holy ascetic in Peristerona of Famagusta. 2. Afxentius, also a holy ascetic in Kome Kepir of Carpasia. 3. Hermogenes, bishop of Samos and hieromartyr. 4. Efxifios, bishop of "Alamania" (= Saint Auxibius, first bishop of Soloi). 5. The holy ascetics Heliophotos and his companions in the area Acheras of Nicosia. 6. Therapon hieromartyr, bishop of "Alamania". 7. Ionas, a holy ascetic in Pergamos near Larnaca. 8. Cendeas, a holy ascetic in Avgorou near Famagusta (BHG 2065). 9. Constantine the "Alaman" (=the new martyr), in Ormideia of Famagusta. 10. Polychronius the hieromartyr. 11. Martyrs Rheginus and Orestes.
Every forged synaxarion is examined separetely and in most cases the sources of each compilation are being detected.
In the present article, following a breaf and annotated reference to the existing information about the person and early cult of st. John, we publish for the first time a festal canon in his honour, surviving, as in codex unicus, in the ms. Sin. Gr. 699, which consists a collection of holy services in honour of several saints and is dated to 14th cent. The hereby edited canon is complexed in the cited ms. with that of st. martyr Dometius the Persian, both placed on the 4th of October, the traditionally only known feast day of st. John the Lampadistes. Although this canon is a compilation and lacks of any originality, it bears a multiple value. It consists the earliest surviving testimony for the hymnographical honour of st. John, compiled during a period and in a place where it was difficult to compose an original special service in his honour. Nevertheless, the anonymous compiler had undoubtedly in mind the mainest points of the saint's ancient Vita, as well as miracles from the existing oral and local tradition.
This text was first published in a pamphlet, commemorative for the event of inauguration of a chapel devoted to saint Modestos in Astromeritis village, Nicosia 2016, pp. 5-11, reprinted here, with some corrections and addition of the most important bibliography.
Ὁ ἐν ἁγίοις πατὴρ ἡμῶν Μόδεστος, πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμων, ἔζησε ἀπὸ τὸ δεύτερο μισὸ τοῦ 6ου αἰ. μέχρι καὶ τὸ ἔτος 631, χωρὶς νὰ γνωρίζουμε τὴν ἀκριβὴ χρονολογία γέννησής του. Ἄγνωστη ἐπίσης παραμένει ἡ ἰδιαίτερη πατρίδα του. Βασικὲς πηγὲς γιὰ τὰ λίγα γνωστὰ περὶ τοῦ βίου του στοιχεῖα παραμένουν ἡ Διήγησις γιὰ τὴν κατάληψη τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων ἀπὸ τοὺς Πέρσες τὸ ἔτος 614, ποὺ συνέγραψε ὁ αὐτόπτης τῶν φοβερῶν ἐκείνων γεγονότων, μοναχὸς Στρατήγιος τῆς τοῦ Ἁγίου Σάββα, ὁ Βίος τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἰωάννου τοῦ Ἐλεήμονος τοῦ Κυπρίου, ποὺ συνέγραψε ὁ ἐπίσης Κύπριος καὶ σύγχρονός του ἅγιος Λεόντιος ἐπίσκοπος Νεαπόλεως (Λεμεσοῦ), ὁ Βίος τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος Ἀναστασίου τοῦ Πέρσου καὶ τὸ Χρονικὸν τοῦ ὁσίου Θεοφάνους τοῦ ὁμολογητοῦ.
Τὸ παρὸν κείμενο πρωτοεκδόθηκε στό, Ἀναμνηστικὸν Ἐγκαινίων παρεκκλησίου Ἁγίου Μοδέστου πατριάρχου Ἱεροσολύμων, Ἀστρομερίτου, Ἀστρομερίτης 2016, σσ. 5-11, μὲ ἐπιμέλεια δική μας. Ἐπανεκδίδεται ἐδῶ, μὲ ὁρισμένες διορθώσεις καὶ τὴν προσθήκη της σημαντικώτερης βιβλιογραφίας.
Our research was not limited strictly to existing relevant scholarly works but was expanded to include new material, both published and unpublished. Following a detailed and documented Introduction, the results of our research are presented in three catalogues: first, the relevant printed editions, followed by the related manuscript material, and finally a prosopographical catalogue.
From this overall research, 21 relevant printed editions and 93 manuscripts have emerged, along with 4 additional manuscripts for which only brief references exist, possibly also belonging to the period under examination. It is noteworthy that some of these manuscripts are presented here for the first time.
The prosopographical catalogue includes 56 individuals who were engaged in the hagiographical and liturgical production during the period under examination. These include bishops, clergy, monks, as well as laypeople.
Concentrating on these vitae or synaxaria, owing to the lack of data concerning the lives of the majority of local saints, a number of anonymous Cypriot clergy or monks undertook the task to create the aforesaid synaxaria, actually by compilation of data from synaxaria of other -usually not so common- saints, together with local traditions. It's to be underlined that in most of these compiled forged synaxaria, the so called "alamanic theory" consists the main "hagiological" backround.
Following our research, the following cases of local saints have been detected with a forged synaxarion: 1. Anastasius, a holy ascetic in Peristerona of Famagusta. 2. Afxentius, also a holy ascetic in Kome Kepir of Carpasia. 3. Hermogenes, bishop of Samos and hieromartyr. 4. Efxifios, bishop of "Alamania" (= Saint Auxibius, first bishop of Soloi). 5. The holy ascetics Heliophotos and his companions in the area Acheras of Nicosia. 6. Therapon hieromartyr, bishop of "Alamania". 7. Ionas, a holy ascetic in Pergamos near Larnaca. 8. Cendeas, a holy ascetic in Avgorou near Famagusta (BHG 2065). 9. Constantine the "Alaman" (=the new martyr), in Ormideia of Famagusta. 10. Polychronius the hieromartyr. 11. Martyrs Rheginus and Orestes.
Every forged synaxarion is examined separetely and in most cases the sources of each compilation are being detected.
In the present article, following a breaf and annotated reference to the existing information about the person and early cult of st. John, we publish for the first time a festal canon in his honour, surviving, as in codex unicus, in the ms. Sin. Gr. 699, which consists a collection of holy services in honour of several saints and is dated to 14th cent. The hereby edited canon is complexed in the cited ms. with that of st. martyr Dometius the Persian, both placed on the 4th of October, the traditionally only known feast day of st. John the Lampadistes. Although this canon is a compilation and lacks of any originality, it bears a multiple value. It consists the earliest surviving testimony for the hymnographical honour of st. John, compiled during a period and in a place where it was difficult to compose an original special service in his honour. Nevertheless, the anonymous compiler had undoubtedly in mind the mainest points of the saint's ancient Vita, as well as miracles from the existing oral and local tradition.
This text was first published in a pamphlet, commemorative for the event of inauguration of a chapel devoted to saint Modestos in Astromeritis village, Nicosia 2016, pp. 5-11, reprinted here, with some corrections and addition of the most important bibliography.
Ὁ ἐν ἁγίοις πατὴρ ἡμῶν Μόδεστος, πατριάρχης Ἱεροσολύμων, ἔζησε ἀπὸ τὸ δεύτερο μισὸ τοῦ 6ου αἰ. μέχρι καὶ τὸ ἔτος 631, χωρὶς νὰ γνωρίζουμε τὴν ἀκριβὴ χρονολογία γέννησής του. Ἄγνωστη ἐπίσης παραμένει ἡ ἰδιαίτερη πατρίδα του. Βασικὲς πηγὲς γιὰ τὰ λίγα γνωστὰ περὶ τοῦ βίου του στοιχεῖα παραμένουν ἡ Διήγησις γιὰ τὴν κατάληψη τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων ἀπὸ τοὺς Πέρσες τὸ ἔτος 614, ποὺ συνέγραψε ὁ αὐτόπτης τῶν φοβερῶν ἐκείνων γεγονότων, μοναχὸς Στρατήγιος τῆς τοῦ Ἁγίου Σάββα, ὁ Βίος τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἰωάννου τοῦ Ἐλεήμονος τοῦ Κυπρίου, ποὺ συνέγραψε ὁ ἐπίσης Κύπριος καὶ σύγχρονός του ἅγιος Λεόντιος ἐπίσκοπος Νεαπόλεως (Λεμεσοῦ), ὁ Βίος τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος Ἀναστασίου τοῦ Πέρσου καὶ τὸ Χρονικὸν τοῦ ὁσίου Θεοφάνους τοῦ ὁμολογητοῦ.
Τὸ παρὸν κείμενο πρωτοεκδόθηκε στό, Ἀναμνηστικὸν Ἐγκαινίων παρεκκλησίου Ἁγίου Μοδέστου πατριάρχου Ἱεροσολύμων, Ἀστρομερίτου, Ἀστρομερίτης 2016, σσ. 5-11, μὲ ἐπιμέλεια δική μας. Ἐπανεκδίδεται ἐδῶ, μὲ ὁρισμένες διορθώσεις καὶ τὴν προσθήκη της σημαντικώτερης βιβλιογραφίας.
Ἡ Ἁγιολογία ἀποτελεῖ καίριο ποιμαντικὸ ἐργαλεῖο στὰ χέρια τῆς Ἐκκλησίας, καὶ κατεξοχὴν τῶν ποιμένων καὶ διδασκάλων της. Μάλιστα στὴν ἐποχή μας, κατὰ τὴν ὁποία ἐκλείπουν τὰ ζωντανὰ πρότυπα τῆς ἀρετῆς καὶ ἁγιότητας καὶ μεθοδεύεται συστηματικὰ ἀπὸ τὴ Νέα Τάξη πραγμάτων ὁ θρησκευτικὸς ἀποχρωματισμὸς καὶ ὁ ποικιλώνυμος συγκριτισμός, ποὺ ὁδηγεῖ στὴν πρόδρομο κατάσταση τῆς ἔλευσης τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου ἀποστασία, ὅπως προφητικὰ χαρακτηρίζεται ἀπὸ τὸν ἀπόστολο Παῦλο (Α´ Θεσ., 2, 3) ἡ ἄρνηση τῆς ὕπαρξης τοῦ Θεοῦ, τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τῆς αἰώνιας ζωῆς, ἡ ἀνάδειξη τῶν ἁγίων μας συμβάλλει τὰ μέγιστα στὴ διατήρηση τοῦ Ὀρθοδόξου δόγματος καὶ ἤθους. Ἰδιαιτέρως γιὰ τοὺς Κυπρίους, προέχει ἡ προβολὴ τῶν τοπικῶν ἁγίων, τοὺς ὁποίους ἀνέκαθεν αἰσθάνονταν ὡς κατεξοχὴν οἰκείους καὶ ἰδιαζόντως σέβονταν."
The article was written by the author and edited by Stavrovouni Monastery in 2008, as a part of an edition devoted to the Holy Cross.