Basilios 162 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Floruit | E/M IX |
| Dates | 821 (taq) / 839 (ob.) |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Jerusalem (officeplace) |
| Titles | Archbishop, Jerusalem (office); Bishop, Jerusalem (office); Patriarch, Jerusalem (office) |
| Textual Sources | Eutychius, Annales, Latin tr. in PG 111. 907-1156;Das Annalenwerk des Eutychius von Alexandrien. ...kompiliert von Sa'îd ibn Batrîq CSCO 471-472; Eutychii PatriarchaeAlexandrini Annales CSCO 50-51 (chronicle); Letter of the Three Patriarchs to Emperor Theophilus and Related Texts, ed. J. A. Munitiz, J. Chrysostomides, E. Harvalia-Crook and Ch. Dendrinos (Porphyrogenitus, 1997) (letters) |
Basilios 162 became patriarch of Jerusalem in the seventh year of the caliph al Ma'mun 1 in succession to Thomas 60 and held the see for twenty five years until his death: Eutychius Alex. 1132A. For his dates, 821 to 839, see Grumel, Chronologie, p. 452. Basilios 162 was one of the three patriarchs named as authors of a letter about the veneration of icons addressed to the emperor Theophilos 5, following a church council, in 836: The Letter of the Three Patriarchs (ed. Munitiz et al.), p. 3, title (Ἐπιστολὴ τῶν ἁγιωτάτων πατριαρχῶν, Χριστοφόρου Ἀλεξανδρείας, Ἰὼβ Ἀντιοχείας, Βασιλείου Ἱεροσολύμων. The letter is dated in April 836.
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