Ioannes 496 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 839 (taq) / 843 (tpq) |
| Locations | Jerusalem; Jerusalem (officeplace) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| 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) |
Ioannes 496 became patriarch of Jerusalem in the fourth year of the caliph al-Mutasim 1; he was very unpopular and after four years he resigned from the see: Eutychius Alex. 1134D. He was patriarch of Jerusalem from 839 to 843; see Grumel, Chronologie, p. 452.
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