JOVINIAN, First Patriarch of Jerusalem. - From 422 to 458. He was a great friend of St. Cyril of Alexandria, with whom he joined forces at the Council of Ephesus (431) in the struggle against Nestorius. Emboldened by this support, he sought to proclaim the see of Jerusalem metropolitan of all Palestine, freeing it from subjection to the patriarchate of Antioch and to the metropolitan see of Caesarea.

J. then adhered transiently to the party of Eutyches against Flavian at the "Robber Council of Ephesus" (449); but at the Council of Chalcedon he is found once again among the orthodox. He was therefore expelled upon his return to Jerusalem by the Monophysites. But once reinstated with the help of the emperor Marcian, he condemned Monophysitism in a synod of 452. Pope Leo the Great eventually recognized the new patriarchate of Jerusalem (v.).

Bibliography

BIBL.: Fliche-Martin-Frutz, IV, see index: F.-M. Abel, St Cyrille d'Alexandrie dans ses rapports avec la Palestine. Cairo 1947, pp. 214-20.

Ignazio Ortiz de Urbina

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Jovinian, First Patriarch of Jerusalem

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