Patriarch Irenaios I (also Erinaios the 1st, born Emmanuel Skopeliti in April of 1939) was elected Patriarch of Jerusalem on August 13, 2001 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
He was enthroned on September 15, 2001 as the 140th "Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, Syria, beyond the Jordan River, Canna of Galilee and Holy Zion" in the presence of senior church and secular dignitaries, including Archbishop Christodoulus of the Church of Greece and Metropolitan Nicholas of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church.
He was born on the Island of Samos in Greece and came to the Holy City of Jerusalem in 1953 and served for many years as Exarch of the Holy Sepulchre in Athens.
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