Archives of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Held by Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI)

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Reference	JM-AEPI
Title	Archives of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Covering dates	1817 - Circa 1955
Dates Start	1817
Dates End	1955
Level of description	Fonds
Extend and medium	2297 and 2548 selected and described files and items

Context area

Repository	Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI)
Name of creator(s)	Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI)
Archival history	Despite its long administrative tradition, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem created a distinct archival service only in the early twentieth century and placed it under the authority of the archigrammateas. The Historical and Paleographic Archive of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation and its director, Agamemnon Tselikas accomplished the classification of the archives from 1988 to 1991 and their catalog was published in Greek in 1992.

Content and structure area

Description	Most of the material is hosted in a two-story building within the patriarchal complex and contains documents from the tenth to the late twentieth centuries. The content of the archives was continually expanded through the post-World War II period. Greek, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish
Accruals	The fonds is not closed.

Conditions of access and use

Conditions governing access	Subject to the authorization of Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (AEPI)
Finding aids	Agamemnon Tselikas, Katagrafi tou archeiou tou Patriarcheiou Ierosolymon [Register of the Jerusalem patriarchate archives], Athens: Deltio tou Istorikou kai Paleografikou Archeiou tou Morfotikou Idrymatos tis Ethnikis Trapezas tis Ellados, 1992

Allied materials area

Publication notes

Angelos Dalachanis and Agamemnon Tselikas "The Brotherhood, the City and the Land: Patriarchal Archives and Scales of Analysis of Greek Orthodox Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods", in Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire (eds), Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City, Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018, 118-136

Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis, “The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem: Between Hellenism and Arabism”, Middle Eastern Studies 30, no. 4 (1994), 916-929.

Sotirios Roussos, "The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and Community of Jerusalem: Church, State and Identity", in ed. Anthony O’Mahony (ed.), The Christian Communities in Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion and Politics, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003, 38-56

Catalogue references area

Rules or conventions	International standard for archival description, General, etc.
Date of the catalogue	1992; Februar 2017; Entry prepared on september 2018
Archivist's notes	Author(s): Agamemnon Tselikas
Sources	http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/archives-of-the-greek-orthodox-patriarchate-of-jerusalem?sf_culture=en

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