Orestes of Jerusalem

Orestes was Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. First Basilian in Southern Italy, he was - probably on the suggestion of his sister, a concubine of the Fatimid Caliph al - Aziz - 986 appointed Patriarch of Jerusalem. In 1000 he was a member of a diplomatic mission to Constantinople Opel to negotiate peace with the Byzantine Empire. He died there probably. His brother Arsenius who had been elevated to Patriarch of Alexandria, administered after the death of Orestes until his own death in 1010 and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.