Browsing: Chrysanthus Notaras

Source: Orthodox History by Samuel Noble Kinsman and successor of Dositheus Notaras, the patriarch of Jerusalem Chrysanthus Notaras (1707-1731) was one of the most erudite Greeks of his time. Educated in Padua and Paris, he wrote works of theology, history, geography and the natural sciences, traveled as far afield as Moscow and Georgia, and maintained correspondences with both Western and Ottoman scholars (the latter, in Turkish). In his Syntagmation, published in Wallachia in 1715, he gives an organizational and geographical description of the entire Orthodox world of his time, enumerating the dioceses and structures of the Patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem…